Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was while he was travelling to South Africa in 1899 via India that he became the first man ever to take a cine-film of a total eclipse of the sun . |
| 2 | Several clubs from the Football League sought to tempt Harry away from the Palace , but without success , and he became the first Palace player to be awarded a Benefit by our club — it was the Southern League encounter with Coventry City at the Palace on 12 October 1912. 9,000 fans turned up and the Palace won 3–0 . |
| 3 | His heart was thudding hard against his ribs and he felt the first droplet of perspiration pop onto his forehead . |
| 4 | His reading of the First Symphony is second to none and he includes the first movement exposition repeat . |
| 5 | David Rees is Chairman of the Law Committee , and he introduced the first morning session , which dealt with the new rules for Administration Orders in personal insolvency . |
| 6 | Powell , taking a quick penalty , fed skipper Gander on the burst and he broke the first line of defence to surge clear . |
| 7 | Quinn can give the bookmakers a caning today if he scores the first goal of the game . |
| 8 | Driver Colin McRae is champion for the second year running … he 's won all six rounds of the home championship … and if he becomes the first Brit since 76 to win the rally he 'll land the bonus prize of a hundred thousand pounds … |
| 9 | He knows that if he fails the first time , he 'll win the second time , if not the third time . |
| 10 | The needle slipped into his blue-veined arm and he closed his eyes while he felt the first rush . |
| 11 | While he spent the first month of his new appointment easing himself in and still nipping up to Edinburgh to round off one or two NHS tasks from London ( where he kept his home and from which he was commuting during his health job ) , many of the key decisions affecting the telecommunications industry over the next year or so have already been taken , so the learning curve will not have to be so dramatics last time . |
| 12 | The Reverend W Awdry has lived and breathed Thomas the Tank engine ever since he wrote the first book about the lovable locomotive in 1945. 25 more books about Thomas and his friends followed Mas well as popular TV series . |
| 13 | A micro-second after he saw the first flash , the bullet which had come from it was embedding itself in his skull . |
| 14 | The news came on the day another record-breaker , Harry Taylor , 33 , returned home after he became the first Briton to reach the summit from the Nepalese side without the aid of oxygen . |
| 15 | And of course on the morning it was difficult to tell because before he took the first test he appeared to be fine until really the , the very last minute . |
| 16 | The CEGB know it , the local authority know it , we know it , you know it , and the inspector appointed to carry out the inevitable inquiry will know it before he hears the first evidence . |
| 17 | The right hon. Gentleman should get out of the habit of writing his supplementary questions before he hears the first answer . |
| 18 | When asked what use it was , Franklin gave the same reply as when he saw the first balloon ascent in 1783 … ’ |
| 19 | The hero was being filmed taking his 10-month-old baby to the pool when he gets the first indication he is going to be threatened . |
| 20 | no , but , I mean our can read and he could read when he left the first class , he did really well |
| 21 | When he reached the first breakwater , Simon turned and waved . |
| 22 | Keith Waugh was armed with only the vaguest canine knowledge when he took the first steps along his career path . |
| 23 | And when he heard the first crash he determined to intervene , in some way that would not dispute the authority of the headmaster 's wife . |
| 24 | PATRICK Rooney was nine years old when he became the first child to die in Ulster 's violent era . |
| 25 | There was a pause when he ended the First Mystery . |
| 26 | Swail 's hopes of getting back in the match virtually disappeared when he lost the first frame of the final session . |
| 27 | Hertz confirmed Maxwell 's theory when he detected the first radio waves . |
| 28 | He moved as soon as he saw the first bead of sweat break on her pallid face , and then he was almost too late . |
| 29 | As he saw the first men fall in the ambush , Lachlan 's shipmaster yelled for his men to fall back . |
| 30 | He had spoken the compliment as though he really meant it , just as he had the first time he 'd said it . |