Example sentences of "[art] first [noun] ever " 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 | He was the first man ever to enter The Sanctuary in Covent Garden , London after TODAY smuggled him in . |
| 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 | Do n't you see , as far as I knew , I was the first man ever to be displaced in time , though no doubt the timeslips were now making a regular thing of it . |
| 5 | ‘ Andy used to tell me that he ought to be called ‘ Boo Linighan ’ because boos were all he seemed to get from our fans — but he 'll deservedly be a hero now , ’ beamed captain Tony Adams after becoming the first man ever to lift both the League and FA Cups in the same season . |
| 6 | The following year he won the 500 race at the North West at 88.71mph , and then went on to his first World Championship successes , in both the 350 and 500 classes , the first man ever to do so . |
| 7 | Away from his business , Christopher craved only peace and solitude , now shared with her — the first person ever to share it . |
| 8 | In 1928 she became the first person ever to swim the Straits of Gibraltar ( in 12 hrs. 50 min. ) , braving the perils of whirlpools , currents , and sharks . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Ironically , the protest had nothing to do with the South Africans who were as warmly received as they had been in Jamaica and Trinidad , greeted and feted by the government and watched by Prime Ministers Erskine Sandiford of Barbados and P.J. Patterson of Jamaica who came specially for the historic occasion , the first Test ever played between teams previously kept apart by the ideology of racial superiority . |
| 11 | Numerous product initiatives were undertaken in 1992 , notably the creation of new products in Louis Vuitton luggage , the launch of new cosmetics and the relaunch of the first perfume ever created by Christian Dior — ‘ Miss Dior . ’ |
| 12 | BRITAIN delivered its third significant blow in two days to the world champions , Pakistan , when Mark Maclean put the seventh-seeded Umar Hayat Khan out of the World Open here yesterday , and became the first Scotsman ever to reach the quarter-finals . |
| 13 | Well I mean it 's the first position ever of such sort . |
| 14 | Preparations for the first tour ever conducted of works from the Barnes Foundation are advancing . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Malcolm was really into doing good window displays for the shop , often influenced by the ones Mr Green used to do for his Vince 's Man 's Shop in Soho — which was the first boutique ever , bringing faded blue denim and hipster trousers to the British public in the fifties . |
| 17 | Craobh nan Ubhal ( The Apple Tree ) is the first play ever to be written and performed in Gaelic , Doric and English . |
| 18 | The first survey ever of such tests has found that another 59 companies say they may start testing . |
| 19 | Around the world — in Japan where ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ won record of the year in its top music awards , in Israel where Kylie was voted most popular female singer of the year and Finland where she became the first artist ever to have four consecutive number ones in a year — the picture was the same : gold , silver and platinum framed . |
| 20 | You think I 'm the first girl ever to meet a man in secret ? |
| 21 | In the 1860s the first policeman ever sent to the fen village of Wicken was killed when he tried to break up a Saturday night brawl . |
| 22 | DataFocus was the first company ever to move the Posix interface to a non-Unix operating system , in this case Unisys ' CTOS . |
| 23 | Among them , the first child ever to read The Hobbit ; the son of the publisher Stanley Unwin , who was paid a shilling to read the book and say whether it should be published . |
| 24 | He pioneered the investigation of diseases of mineworkers and in 1520 , aged 27 , produced the first monograph ever written on occupational disease . |
| 25 | There were places where we were the first Westerners ever to have been seen , though we pre-existed in their racial memory as ugly , dominating invaders . |
| 26 | In the SAS he undoubtedly learned rather more than that , including the survival skills which he has had to draw on so often in expeditions which have not always gone according to plan.He has been a full-time explorer since he was 25 and ‘ like everybody else , in every career , you do n't retire until you have to , ’ he says.His CV reads like a non-stop Boys Own adventure — shooting up the White Nile in a hovercraft , parachuting on to the Jostedalsbre Glacier and negotiating more than 4,000 miles of Canadian and Alaskan rivers.Between 1979 and 1982 , he circumnavigated the world on the Transglobe Expedition , becoming one of the first men ever to reach both the North and South Poles overland . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ This genuine shortage is occurring for the first time ever . |
| 29 | Omi looked steadily at Erika for a long moment , and looking back into Omi 's fine , hooded eyes , Erika sensed for the first time ever , not merely that Omi was an old woman who walked rather slowly , was glad of help in undressing , and who , on days when her arthritis was very bad , needed her meat cutting for her . |
| 30 | In his comprehensive Apples Of England , Dr Taylor states that ‘ In England this variety only reaches full maturity in years of hot summers , ’ and goes on to say that ‘ Indeed , November- December-picked Sturmers are the best , ’ and , with a basket-full of fine specimens picked for the first time ever in the latter month , I agree . |