Example sentences of "who [vb past] the first [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sohail the hero : the batting highlight of the match was the brisk 205 from the 25-year-old opener from Lahore , Aamir Sohail , who became the first left-hander to hit a Test double-century for Pakistan |
| 2 | Looking on is his Surrey team-mate Alec Stewart , who became the first Englishman to carry his bat at Lord 's Test during the second innings |
| 3 | It was Janice who made the first move to end the evening . |
| 4 | In rural areas only about 6 per cent of the children who entered the first grade completed the primary cycle , and half these entrants dropped out after the first grade . |
| 5 | For it was the people of the three original founding cantons , Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden , who took the first steps to free themselves from external domination and start what was to become an independent confederation of communities , unified in a unique fashion , which in their early years were mostly called simply the Confederates but later became known as Schweizer after the name of one of the original component areas , Schwyz . |