Example sentences of "he [vb past] [art] first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made the first recording of the human electrocardiogram in 1887 , an important advance which , in other hands , had widespread applications in medicine . |
| 2 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 3 | In October he passed the first part of the examination for ordination , and afterwards could not understand how he passed . |
| 4 | As Superintendent in Bolton he produced the first issue of The Deaf Quarterly News as a local news-sheet of four pages . |
| 5 | He became the first Earl of Iveagh , and set up the Guinness and Iveagh Trusts which provided homes for the poor in Dublin and London , and made substantial contributions to Trinity College and Dublin hospitals . |
| 6 | He became the first editor of the Parents ' Association Newsletter , a valuable complement to the School Magazine . |
| 7 | Ordained deacon in 1875 , he became the first chaplain of Clifton College Mission . |
| 8 | In 1852 he became the first Moderator of the new Presbytery of Otago Province and in 1869 the first Chancellor of the University of Otago . |
| 9 | He became the first Marquess of Exeter in 1801 and he died in 1804 , aged 50 . |
| 10 | In nineteen sixty five , which was rather after I came here , he moved to the University of Sussex , where he became the first Dean of the new School of Biological Sciences , and that was the beginning of a very distinguished contribution to scientific work in this university . |
| 11 | He got the first laugh of the show , a big one . |
| 12 | In 1855 he built the first section of the Llanidloes- Newton line , and later extended his operations all over Wales . |
| 13 | He ignored the first part of her statement . |
| 14 | He joined the first board of Tees conservancy commissioners in 1852 , and a year later was among Middlesbrough 's first councillors , becoming the town 's third mayor in 1855 . |
| 15 | A month ago he chaired the first meeting of the ‘ great and the good ’ who make up the Cairngorms Working Party . |
| 16 | He popped the first bottle of champagne and poured a glass . |
| 17 | While he spent the first month of his new appointment easing himself in and still nipping up to Edinburgh to round off one or two NHS tasks from London ( where he kept his home and from which he was commuting during his health job ) , many of the key decisions affecting the telecommunications industry over the next year or so have already been taken , so the learning curve will not have to be so dramatics last time . |
| 18 | The whole is a tribute to the diplomatic skills and national divisions of the Generalsekretär of the Kulturstiftung , Klaus Maurice , whose view of German culture transcends normal politics , as his recent enabling of the British Library to buy the complete series of Tauchnitz classics shows ; for at the time when he retrieved the first piece of the treasure , Quedlinburg was still behind the Wall . |
| 19 | In 1884 , when he finished the first version of his set ( he revised it to form part of his Klavierübung in 1922 ) , Busoni was only eighteen , but he was always a practised composer , with an enormous quantity of piano music to his credit — indeed , he had composed five Sonatas and a host of other pieces for all sorts of forces before he was fifteen . |
| 20 | Swail 's hopes of getting back in the match virtually disappeared when he lost the first frame of the final session . |
| 21 | Powell , taking a quick penalty , fed skipper Gander on the burst and he broke the first line of defence to surge clear . |
| 22 | As he delivered the first ball of his third over on that fateful sunny afternoon , his left knee split apart , fracturing in two . |
| 23 | Then he reached the first green of the tournament proper — rather than the first green of the practice rounds . |
| 24 | He was already feeling ill by Christmas , but nevertheless he was writing extraordinarily rapidly and by 1 January 1941 he sent a first draft of the poem , tentatively entitled " Dry Salvages " , to John Hayward . |
| 25 | When the challenge got through to him , he disobeyed the first rule of the services and volunteered . |
| 26 | He saw the first group of storm-troopers in the forest to his left . |
| 27 | He moved as soon as he saw the first bead of sweat break on her pallid face , and then he was almost too late . |
| 28 | His heart was thudding hard against his ribs and he felt the first droplet of perspiration pop onto his forehead . |
| 29 | He won the first race of the season in Australia but was injured before the Phoenix 200 . |
| 30 | He presented the first edition of What the Papers Say for Granada in 1956 , going on to present 160 programmes . |