Example sentences of "he become the [num ord] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became the first pilot to aerial bomb Istanbul , and held the record for long distance bombing raids , many of which were in a Handley Page 0/400 . |
| 2 | He was a politician and a financier , well-known in his time ; but we remember him today because on the 15th of September 1830 , at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , he became the first person to be run down and killed by a train ( that 's what he became , was turned into ) . |
| 3 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 4 | Today he became the first person to be charged under a new law introduced this month of causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 5 | ‘ When Vinnie swore the other day in the Blackburn game he became the first player to be sent off for swearing at a fellow professional . |