Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [vb past] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen is a boy of mixed Jamaican and St Vincentian parentage , born and raised only a few miles away from the white girl who provided the first narrative . |
| 2 | Draper was an English scientist who became the first president of the American Chemical Society . |
| 3 | Pliny described it as being of use , if scattered in a pool , for curing unhealthy fish ; it was said to have been grown in the Emperor Charlemagne 's herb garden ; Ion the Gardener who wrote the first book about gardening in Britain included it as his favourite herb , and it was mentioned in Langland 's famous poem Piers Plowman . |
| 4 | The Wainwright walk was made famous by the author of the same name who pioneered the first coast to coast walk in 1972 . |
| 5 | It was a woman who got the first question in , her voice rising shrilly above the others . |
| 6 | Surprisingly it was the student who took the first frame , managing a break of 54 . |
| 7 | Alcuin , the man who described the first attack , thought they were terrifying and wicked . |
| 8 | ( Islip , Long Island in the U.S. , was founded by the son of a Northamptonshire emigrant who became the first mayor of New York City in 1671 . ) |