Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this he struck the first blow , and broke it in striking . ’ |
| 2 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 3 | Holroyd Smith was indeed keen to demonstrate the relative success of his new traction system : on June 29th he operated the first test runs in Princess Street , using one of the experimental Manchester cars . |
| 4 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 5 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 6 | Sheltering abroad , in 1558 he wrote The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Woman — the ‘ regiment ’ actually meaning a regimen or government by women , which he condemned as ‘ a thing most contrarious ’ to God 's ‘ revealed will and approved ordinance ’ . |
| 7 | In 1855 he built the first section of the Llanidloes- Newton line , and later extended his operations all over Wales . |
| 8 | In 1956 he became the first consultant neurologist to the RVI , establishing a department which achieved an international reputation . |
| 9 | In 1868 he founded the first lodge in England , ‘ Columbia ’ lodge no. 1 . |
| 10 | In 1852 he became the first Moderator of the new Presbytery of Otago Province and in 1869 the first Chancellor of the University of Otago . |
| 11 | In 1910 he took the first division examination for the Civil Service and secured a place in the Home Office , which he joined in 1911 . |