Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there , he became involved with the first commercial bungee jumping company , and brought the idea back home . |
| 2 | He became one of the first football commentators on radio , copying the urgent , excitable American style of the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ , earning himself the nickname of ‘ By Jove ’ Allison on the way . |
| 3 | Sony Corp appointed Michael Schulhof , now vice-chairman of Sony USA Inc , to the post of president and chief executive of its US unit , which will be renamed Sony Corp of America : Schulhof joined Sony in 1974 after a mainly academic career as a physicist and worked on the development of the compact disk ; in 1989 , he became one of the first Americans to be appointed to the board of a major Japanese company . |
| 4 | He became one of the first Conceptual artists and among the first to draw his imagery from television , movies , newspapers and advertising . |
| 5 | He became one of the first Whitworth scholars in 1875 and completed his education at King 's College , University of London . |
| 6 | He became one of the first to benefit from the plastic surgery techniques pioneered by Sir Archibald |
| 7 | He became communicative for the first time . |
| 8 | Alvaro Arzú was the former mayor of Guatemala City and co-founder with Alvaro Heredia ( the acting mayor ) of the right-wing National Advancement Party ( PAN ) , as whose candidate he came fourth in the first round of the election . |
| 9 | He collected four of the first five wickets and , on the day , had figures of 11–7–8–4 . |
| 10 | He lost five of the first seven holes in the afternoon and was in danger of going into the record books as Wentworth 's bloodiest casualty . |
| 11 | He felt uneasy for the first time ever , a prickling at the back of his neck , a sense of personal danger . |
| 12 | In 1898 , on the Torres Straits expedition , he performed some of the first experiments in cross-cultural psychology and also developed the genealogical method as a key to the study of social organization . |
| 13 | He decorated most of the first half of the 700-page manuscript himself , leaving much of the rest to assistants of lesser ability . |