Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 2 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 3 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 4 | He set off for Ayr yesterday with five more under his belt and promptly won the first three races , two in photos . |
| 5 | Problems with a flaked bone in his foot , a broken toe and then hamstring and rib injuries meant that McLeish played only seven times for Aberdeen last season and also missed the first 11 matches of this one . |