Example sentences of "[pron] made the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He built , to his own design , the steamship Robert Fulton , which made the first successful ocean voyage off the east coast of America , sailing from New York to Havana . |
| 2 | It was Freud who made the first extensive use of hypnosis to probe the depths of the subconscious mind . |
| 3 | So says Charles Munn , who made the first known sighting of this small parrot in 1985 , at clay-eating cliff in Peru 's Manu National Park . |
| 4 | We made the first free-jazz record , with no plan , just improvised . |
| 5 | Cody was largely responsible for the engine installation of the airship which flew in 1907 , and he designed and constructed the machine on which he made the first powered aeroplane flight in Great Britain on 16 October 1908 . |