Example sentences of "he [verb] the first [noun sg] [prep] " 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 | Karajan 's response to Honegger 's Symphonie liturgique and its near contemporary , Strauss 's Metamorphosen , of which he made the first recording in 1947 , provides specifically musical evidence of Karajan 's priorities and allegiances that I have yet to see considered by those who have become so concerned to analyse and recycle often erroneous information about his alleged political sympathies before and during the Second World War . |
| 3 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 4 | He made the first goal with a delightful , a dazzling run . |
| 5 | In October he passed the first part of the examination for ordination , and afterwards could not understand how he passed . |
| 6 | In the mid-Sixties , as a prominent if unlikely member of London 's ‘ underground ’ , he produced the first single by the Pink Floyd . |
| 7 | As Superintendent in Bolton he produced the first issue of The Deaf Quarterly News as a local news-sheet of four pages . |
| 8 | NEWTOWNABBEY mayor Alderman Arthur Kell will send a rocket into orbit this Saturday when he lights the first firework at the Valley Leisure Centre 's annual display . |
| 9 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 10 | He became the first man in history to walk into a restaurant and trip over a ceiling . |
| 11 | For his day 's exploits , he became the first American in the war to be awarded the Légion d'Honneur . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He became the first editor of the Parents ' Association Newsletter , a valuable complement to the School Magazine . |
| 15 | Ordained deacon in 1875 , he became the first chaplain of Clifton College Mission . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 18 | Today he became the first person to be charged under a new law introduced this month of causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He became the first Marquess of Exeter in 1801 and he died in 1804 , aged 50 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Three days later he became the first President in American history to resign his office . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | During his 100th appearance , he became the first player at Test level to dismiss 500 opponents ( i.e. wickets and catches combined ) . |
| 25 | He got the first laugh of the show , a big one . |
| 26 | In 1855 he built the first section of the Llanidloes- Newton line , and later extended his operations all over Wales . |
| 27 | Two years ago , he found the first galaxy with a red-shift larger than 1 — that is , with all its radiation more than doubled in wavelengths . |
| 28 | As soon as he entered the first field to be cut his mates up-ended him and gave him the same treatment which stopped only when he shouted ‘ Beer ! ’ . |
| 29 | He arrived before them to coordinate their integration into the first U S Marine expeditionary force ; he says the first task for his men will be acclimatisation with desert temperatures still in the high nineties . |
| 30 | He ignored the first part of her statement . |