Example sentences of "he wrote the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote the first textbook on the relationship between the natural functions of the bones , ligaments , tendons and muscles , and dance movement . |
| 2 | While Coleridge waited for the sun to set behind Dowsborough and Higher Hare Knap , he wrote the first fluent draft of a poem reworked soon afterwards as ‘ This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison ’ . |
| 3 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 4 | He wrote the first card to Mitch . |
| 5 | He wrote the first for Lady Carbery , whose piety he greatly admired , and its sequel in her memory . |
| 6 | Sheltering abroad , in 1558 he wrote The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Woman — the ‘ regiment ’ actually meaning a regimen or government by women , which he condemned as ‘ a thing most contrarious ’ to God 's ‘ revealed will and approved ordinance ’ . |
| 7 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |
| 8 | The Reverend W Awdry has lived and breathed Thomas the Tank engine ever since he wrote the first book about the lovable locomotive in 1945. 25 more books about Thomas and his friends followed Mas well as popular TV series . |