Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [noun] [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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1 | Capel Ablett and Fiery Fred opened the batting for W & V Capel missed the first three balls and played on to his stumps with the fourth ball . |
2 | Liverpool won 5-0 at Goodison Park , and Ian Rush became the first player to net four in a derby game since Freddie Howe in 1935 . |
3 | Two years and a historical event passed before Jack Elliot and Harold Farrington made the first commercial flights in Curtiss Jennies , on March 3 , 1926 . |
4 | When Mr Bush lost and Mr Clinton became the first Democratic president for more than a decade , the much-valued special relationship between Britain and America suddenly looked decidedly shaky . |
5 | In June 1953 , Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing became the first men to conquer Mount Everest . |
6 | She and Hannah Dooley left the First Spiritualist and founded a Household Church . |
7 | In 1910 , when a delegacy for women students was set up , control of the home students was taken over by the university and Bertha Johnson became the first woman to hold a senior university appointment in Oxford as principal of the Society of Oxford Home Students . |
8 | Ronnie Carey made the breakthrough on 16 minutes after a Jeremy Hastings break , and Ashley Blair added the first of three superb conversions . |
9 | In 1887 he and A. Tanakadate conducted the first magnetic survey of Japan . |