Example sentences of "he [vb past] [num] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | He became one of the first Conceptual artists and among the first to draw his imagery from television , movies , newspapers and advertising . |
4 | He became one of the first Whitworth scholars in 1875 and completed his education at King 's College , University of London . |
5 | He became one of the first to benefit from the plastic surgery techniques pioneered by Sir Archibald |
6 | He collected four of the first five wickets and , on the day , had figures of 11–7–8–4 . |
7 | 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 . |