Example sentences of "[noun prp] be the first [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richmond was the first black man to find in sport a route out of the despair and misery which were integral parts of his enslavement . |
| 2 | Bruce was the first United man to be cautioned and later McClair and Hughes followed him , but Torpedo 's histrionic reaction to the visitors ' tackling rarely impressed referee Jan Dangaard . |
| 3 | Dr. Bernard L. Pitcher was the first born-deaf man in Britain to gain a doctorate , and in 1988 , was still alive living in retirement at Worthing , Sussex where he was the secretary of the local deaf club . |
| 4 | From ‘ African History for Beginners ’ we learn that Cain was the first white man ; he turned pale , and his features shrivelled up , when God shouted at him for killing Abel . |
| 5 | Richard Aslett Pearce was the first born-deaf man to be ordained in Britain , and he continued to do pastoral work throughout Hampshire until his death in 1928 . |