Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] who [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Surprisingly it was the student who took the first frame , managing a break of 54 . |
| 3 | So it is that tomorrow , ITV will screen a profile of the man who spent the first eight years of his life in Abyssinia ( now Ethiopia ) and graduated to serious eccentricity via an English prep school ( where he was beaten ) , Eton ( where he learned to box ) and finally Oxford ( where he was a boxing blue and acquired the dramatically-bent nose which for six decades has lent drama to what would in any case have been a distinguished face ) . |
| 4 | Alcuin , the man who described the first attack , thought they were terrifying and wicked . |
| 5 | It was a woman who got the first question in , her voice rising shrilly above the others . |