Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Tom McKean was relieved to avoid one of his familiar acts of self-destruction as he successfully negotiated the first hurdle of his quest for gold in the 800m . |
| 2 | He duly produced the first work on natural history to use this new technique , Zoological Illustrations ( 6 volumes , 1820–33 ) and at the same time , Exotic Conchology ( 1821–2 ) . |
| 3 | Spreadbury , on his first trip to the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Bank-sponsored tournament , was the subject of an official protest after he inadvertently allowed the first half of a quarter-final match to overrun by 1½ minutes — a long way beyond the regulation seven minutes . |
| 4 | The hostility which this aroused , as well as his role as royal guardian of London , resulted in his death at the hands of a furious mob and he thus became the first bishop since Becket to be murdered . |
| 5 | He still remembers the first record he bought — Frank Philips narrating Peter and the Wolf on Ace of Clubs with Britten 's Young Person 's Guide ( LPO/Concertgebouw/van Beinum ) . |
| 6 | Whenever there was a vacancy at his newspaper for a trainee reporter , he loyally gave the first opportunity to someone from the school . |
| 7 | ‘ He usually took the first surgery , so that Niall could be left free to attend crew briefings . ’ |
| 8 | During this period he also wrote the first act of the ‘ sacred Singspiel ’ Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots ( 9 ) the remaining acts being written by Michael Haydn ( l737–l806 then Konzertmeister to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and Anton Adlgasser ( 1729–1777 , court and cathedral organist in Salzburg ) . |
| 9 | Certainly Hobhouse can be taken as a representative figure since , in addition to being a leading light of New Liberalism , he also held the first Chair of Sociology to be established in Britain — at the London School of Economics , which was founded by the Webbs . |
| 10 | He also created the first man , Purusha , from the navel of Vishnu . |
| 11 | He then left the first stetch and did the same with the next . |
| 12 | He then drew the first furrow of the stetch himself . |
| 13 | But his Book of Cricketers — of 1979 , about players most ‘ enjoyed by one cricketer ’ ( he never used the first person ) , was half made up of Hampshire men . |