Example sentences of "[noun] who [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the visitors who created the first half 's best chance through their lively striker , Marshall . |
| 2 | It was Janice who made the first move to end the evening . |
| 3 | Stephen is a boy of mixed Jamaican and St Vincentian parentage , born and raised only a few miles away from the white girl who provided the first narrative . |
| 4 | Draper was an English scientist who became the first president of the American Chemical Society . |
| 5 | The Lawns at Broseley , the home of John Wilkinson who built the first iron bridge , now houses a large impressive collection of English pottery and porcelain . |
| 6 | Whether it is the purchaser 's accountants or the vendor 's accountants who prepare the first draft , the other party 's accountants should have access to their working papers if the rules are properly negotiated . |
| 7 | He has a senior wife who lays the first egg in the scrape he makes in the ground for her . |
| 8 | Pliny described it as being of use , if scattered in a pool , for curing unhealthy fish ; it was said to have been grown in the Emperor Charlemagne 's herb garden ; Ion the Gardener who wrote the first book about gardening in Britain included it as his favourite herb , and it was mentioned in Langland 's famous poem Piers Plowman . |
| 9 | The Wainwright walk was made famous by the author of the same name who pioneered the first coast to coast walk in 1972 . |
| 10 | There are many different people who contribute to the efficient running of a clinic , including nurses , technicians , social workers , contact-tracers , doctors , and , the person who makes the first contact with a patient , the receptionist , whose contribution to the well-running of the department is of particular importance . |
| 11 | The civil servants who drafted the first version of the Bill , the Green Book , were not united on any issue but the simple one that there needed to be reform at all . |
| 12 | It was a woman who got the first question in , her voice rising shrilly above the others . |
| 13 | There is the racist argument that blackness is a factor in why certain people commit crimes , and there is the anti-racist argument that blackness is a factor in why certain people have crimes committed against them , generally by people who believe the first argument . |
| 14 | Surprisingly it was the student who took the first frame , managing a break of 54 . |
| 15 | Alcuin , the man who described the first attack , thought they were terrifying and wicked . |
| 16 | A SMALL point on your book review of Durham : Birth of a First-Class County : had Ralph Dellor consulted the club or been at the match , he would have noted that it was Paul Parker who took the first ball from Oxford University pace bowler Michael Jeh , and not John Glendenen . |
| 17 | In rural areas only about 6 per cent of the children who entered the first grade completed the primary cycle , and half these entrants dropped out after the first grade . |
| 18 | In both Tests , two or three Englishmen looked well set , but failed to convert good innings into substantial ones , unlike India who won the first Test through Azharuddin 's great innings of 182 and laid the foundation for the Madras victory with Tendulkar 's 165 and Sidhu 's 106 . |
| 19 | It was Geoff Yeadon and Oliver Statham who made the first connection in the jigsaw , 12 years ago . |
| 20 | ( Islip , Long Island in the U.S. , was founded by the son of a Northamptonshire emigrant who became the first mayor of New York City in 1671 . ) |