Example sentences of "he [vb past] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cody was largely responsible for the engine installation of the airship which flew in 1907 , and he designed and constructed the machine on which he made the first powered aeroplane flight in Great Britain on 16 October 1908 . |
| 2 | A.J. Wilson , the President of the National Deaf Club , and the first deaf person to drive a car back in 1896 , got another ‘ first ’ that was most unwelcome when he became the first deaf driver to fall foul of the road traffic laws and be fined for speeding . |
| 3 | In 1854 he became the first official photographer to the British Museum , and received several commissions to photograph for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 4 | So in 1901 he decided to emigrate with his wife and two children to Australia , where he became the first full-time missioner of the Adult Deaf Society of Victoria , which celebrated its centenary in 1984 . |
| 5 | There was widespread regret when Butler resigned , in 1935 , to join the Agricultural Research Council , of which he became the first paid secretary . |
| 6 | He became the first Australian leg-spinner since Bill O'Reilly against South Africa in 1936-37 to claim five wickets in an innings at the MCG . |
| 7 | He became the first Portuguese emigrant to be allowed a licence to open a liquor store there . |
| 8 | In 1888 he bought Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds for £10,000 and presented it as a civic monument , and he gave £5,000 to Leeds Infirmary , as well as other sums for charitable purposes — deeds for which , in 1889 , he became the first honorary freeman of Leeds . |
| 9 | In his work in the western part of the United States not only did he describe physical erosive processes but was also able to derive a system of laws governing progress from initial to adjusted forms ( Chorley , Dunn and Beckinsale , 1964 ) and in his Report on the Geology of the Henry Mountains ( 1877 ) he provided the first major treatment by a geologist of the mechanics of fluvial processes . |
| 10 | He provided the first correct solution selected to last week 's query and knew that Brian Little ( Leicester ) and Steve Perryman ( Watford ) are current Football League managers who have been capped just once by England . |
| 11 | He was elected for Cardiganshire in 1885 , but he opposed the first Irish Home Rule Bill introduced by W. E. Gladstone in June 1886 . |
| 12 | By consistently applying quantum mechanics to Maxwell 's theory of the electromagnetic field he constructed the first known specimen of a quantum field theory . |
| 13 | He heard the first ominous creak , looked up . |
| 14 | As one of Wesley 's leading preachers he attended the first Methodist conference in 1744 and in 1748 promoted the system of ‘ quarterly meetings ’ to oversee the local Methodist ‘ circuits ’ ( groups of societies ) . |
| 15 | Murder : he remembered the first chilling thrill of the word in the school playground , when it was still something to be excited about and before he knew who the victim was , or the chief suspect . |
| 16 | In 1870 he gave the first authentic account of amoebae from the human intestine . |
| 17 | Before he was 19 , Gauss had constructed , by straightedge and compass , a regular 17-gon , the first " new " constructible regular polygon for 2000 years , and in 1799 he gave the first satisfactory proof ( where Newton , Euler and Lagrange had failed ) of the fundamental theorem of algebra ( 4.8.1 ) . |
| 18 | He said the first new batch of HLCA cheques would go out yesterday . |
| 19 | While Coleridge waited for the sun to set behind Dowsborough and Higher Hare Knap , he wrote the first fluent draft of a poem reworked soon afterwards as ‘ This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison ’ . |
| 20 | Cooke 's interest in fungi began while he was teaching , and in 1862 he published the first popular book on toadstools , A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi . |