Example sentences of "[adv] became the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 2 | Only after he had set to work , at Halley 's urging , on the tract that eventually became the first book of the Principia did Newton abandon vortices and envisage attractive — and repulsive — forces in central bodies . |
| 3 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 4 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 5 | In that campaign , which he ended with a score of 221 , he also rode the fastest 100 by a jump jockey , smashed Jonjo O'Neill 's record seasonal total of 149 , and not only became the first man to ride 200 winners over jumps , but the first to do so under either code since Sir Gordon Richards did so on the Flat in 1952 . |
| 6 | Hudson , 93 at the interval , soon became the first batsman to score a century on Test debut for South Africa — Wessels had achieved the feat for Australia — and he prevailed over the partnership that carried South Africa to within eight of the lead entering the third day . |
| 7 | They bought a garage at Caterham from Anthony Crook , who still runs the Bristol Car Company , and began by carrying out ‘ all the usual garage things ’ , and soon became the first Lotus agent when the manufacturer began to expand . |
| 8 | Mains thus became the first ( and I am afraid , only ) rugby man who ever considered I knew anything about the game . |
| 9 | The hostility which this aroused , as well as his role as royal guardian of London , resulted in his death at the hands of a furious mob and he thus became the first bishop since Becket to be murdered . |
| 10 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 11 | Boothroyd thus became the first woman Speaker . |
| 12 | ‘ Just the job , ’ thought the enthusiastic Gary , and thus became the first person in history to attempt to convert a quartet of Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 13 | George Woodger , an inside or centre-forward of the highest quality , played for the Palace in our earliest years and quickly became the first Palace ‘ superstar ’ — and that in an age when today 's publicity was unthinkable . |
| 14 | Gilbey quickly became the first person Diana turned to when the pressures of her life and marriage became too much . |
| 15 | EQUITY & LAW , The Netherlands ' 60ft yacht skippered by Dirk Nauta , yesterday became the first of the smaller boats and 15th so far to finish the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race to Punta del Este in Uruguay . |
| 16 | HOCKEY star Steve Martin yesterday became the first British player sent off in Olympic Games history . |
| 17 | An Ulster pipe band yesterday became the first band in the United Kingdom to win six major competitions in a year . |
| 18 | In 1963 ( I believe ) was appointed Director of the Communication research Centre , and soon after became the first Professor of Linguistics at U.C.L. ( as I soon came to know him ) was a charismatic teacher and delightfully friendly person , and I benefitted greatly from close contact with him in 1963–4 , when he was Director of the Communication Research Centre , and I was Assistant Director . |
| 19 | Sir Aubrey also became the first man in Test history to dismiss a namesake when he bowled F.W. for 7 in the first innings . |
| 20 | At the same time he also became the first known clerk of Parliament and thus was responsible for beginning the compilation of the rolls of Parliament . |
| 21 | After William Morris 's death in 1896 , Benson also became the first chairman of William Morris & Co . |
| 22 | It also became the first government since 1974 to serve a full four-year term ; a general election was due in October 1991 . |
| 23 | Hungary also became the first country to establish full diplomatic relations with Ukraine on Dec. 7 . |
| 24 | Other countries soon welcomed the breed , including several in South America and southern Africa , and it later became the first foreign breed to be imported by Japan . |
| 25 | Lyric Fantasy , brilliant winner of the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot in June , later became the first two-year-old filly to win the all-aged Nunthorpe Stakes . |
| 26 | Athletics , to a more limited extent , commanded some attention , beginning in the late nineteenth century with Arthur Wharton who later became the first black footballer to play league soccer . |
| 27 | Fernandez later became the first major upset in the tournament when she lost 6–2 6–2 to fellow American Ginger Helgeson in the second round . |
| 28 | Duncan Heenan , who four years ago became the first chartered accountant to swim the Channel ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November 1988 , p 68 ) , is still , it seems , addicted to spending hours at a time submerged in cold , murky water . |
| 29 | Kept in training as a four-year-old , Pebbles won the Trusthouse Forte Mile at Sandown Park , was second in the Prince of Wales 's Stakes at Royal Ascot , and then became the first filly ever to win the Eclipse , beating subsequent Arc winner Rainbow Quest by two lengths . |
| 30 | Malcolm Crosby of Sunderland almost became the first caretaker manager to win the FA Cup until Liverpool doused them with reality . |