Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor do I expect an angler to recognise every bite he feels the first time he tries touch legering . |
| 2 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 3 | In October he passed the first part of the examination for ordination , and afterwards could not understand how he passed . |
| 4 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 5 | ‘ When Vinnie swore the other day in the Blackburn game he became the first player to be sent off for swearing at a fellow professional . |
| 6 | One of the first bits of advice he gave the First Church was , ‘ Bend the knee , but not unwisely . ’ |
| 7 | The reason he survived the first strike is the reason that you all escaped the second . |
| 8 | In the following two seasons he became the first player to win the Harry Sunderland Award twice for his performances in the Premiership Final victories over Hull and Bradford Northern . |
| 9 | In 1784 he began experimenting with small model balloons , and on 4 October that year he became the first Englishman to fly a hot-air balloon , with a short flight in Oxford . |
| 10 | At his works in London he built the first carriage used on the L & B line and also the carriages for the Eastern Counties , the London and Brighton , the London & South-Eastern , the London South-Western , the Blackwall Railways . |
| 11 | As Superintendent in Bolton he produced the first issue of The Deaf Quarterly News as a local news-sheet of four pages . |