Example sentences of "[be] the first [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His briskness of pace off the pitch became legendary , and he is said to have been the first bowler deliberately to have deployed the seam in his technique . |
| 2 | Marco Polo seems to have been the first European actually to have made it there and back . |
| 3 | Scott and his friend returned year after year in search of poetic treasure , and Scott is recorded as having been the first man ever to tackle the rough tracks into Liddesdale in a carriage . |
| 4 | You think I 'm the first girl ever to meet a man in secret ? |
| 5 | More fun is to be had with the excitable Katch-22 , who favours the talking-about-himself approach to rap and a wider range of noises , most notably on the sprightly ‘ Service With A Smile ’ , which may well be the first tune ever to contain the line ‘ You paedophile ’ . |
| 6 | This must be the first review ever to end with a load of balls ! |
| 7 | Think , son , you 'll be the first actor ever to speak the lines ! ’ |
| 8 | As well as being the first UK woman to climb the mountain she intends to be the first female ever to make the ascent without oxygen . |
| 9 | America was conceived in vision as one of the greatest dreams of men ; it was to be the first nation ever to escape from oppression and the freed spirit would bring forth a splendid nation . |
| 10 | She is very proud of being the first person ever to sit on her ; Pauline broke the pony and the two have done all the training since , with professional help in the later stages from instructor Mal Kendall . |
| 11 | He was the first man ever to enter The Sanctuary in Covent Garden , London after TODAY smuggled him in . |
| 12 | He was also commissioned to photograph in the Crimea during the war ; he was the first photographer successfully to photograph a war . |
| 13 | DataFocus was the first company ever to move the Posix interface to a non-Unix operating system , in this case Unisys ' CTOS . |
| 14 | Lawrence , 41 , who had been elected to the legislature in 1986 after an outstanding academic career , was the first woman ever to hold the office of Australian state premier . |
| 15 | Not only was she was the first woman ever to gain the imperial throne by her own machinations , she was also the first to institute the practice of official cunnilingus . |
| 16 | Ogata , 63 , was the first woman ever to head a major UN agency . |
| 17 | No , I do n't know Alf , I ca n't remember if he was the first goalkeeper ever to throw a ball out to a player but , er if you want to ring up , tell you what you want to do , you want to ring up if you 're around , between twelve and one , and discuss that with Pete Murray , and Tony Lockwood , for , when they have the sport back on Talkback , and er , that of course , is the specialist sportsperson 's hour , and er , they may be able to throw a bit of light on that . |
| 18 | They were all in a meeting , and they did n't quite know how to deal with me — I was the first celebrity ever to have gone . |