Example sentences of "[noun] who have first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was no longer the wily old ecclesiastical politician from the metropole who had first closed down Martinho 's seminary news-letter and then later , seeing which way the wind blew , had made an unholy , if tacit , alliance with Caesar in the shape of Osvaldo . |
| 2 | It was Glasgow-born American Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown and Captain John Alcock who had first flown an aircraft across the Atlantic one month earlier in June , and their terrible journey in a giant biplane bomber powered by Rolls-Royce engines was very different from today 's high-cruising world of in-flight movies . |
| 3 | It was the gratitude of the star on This is Your Life thanking the village schoolmaster who had first taken him to the theatre . |
| 4 | At the end of January an amendment to Article 27 of the 1917 Constitution implementing a radical agricultural reform was approved by Congress and signed by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari who had first proposed the reform in November 1991 [ see p. 38569 ] . |
| 5 | Her name was Paulette , but the Prince called all such girls Charlotte , after the English Princess who had first agreed to marry him , then inexplicably broken off the engagement . |
| 6 | Every weekday morning just before 10 o'clock I would visit the Chief of Police , John Fyvie , a tall dour and somewhat lugubrious ex-CPR policeman who had first served as a ‘ bobbie ’ in his home town of Aberdeen , Scotland . |
| 7 | There were alarming stories from a French colleague who had first been made to pay an exorbitant " import duty " for bringing his film stock into the country — and then , on his eventual departure , three times as much again for " export duty " because , it was argued , exposed film was clearly much more valuable than virgin film . |
| 8 | And the apologist who might wish to make Huxley the aggressor should know that one observer , the zoologist Alfred Newton , clearly reported that it was Huxley who had first been chaffed by the bishop . |
| 9 | For this reason , he invited the previous speaker who had first referred to the lack of education of the people of the area to spend a day or two in the area sometime to experience it first hand . |
| 10 | It was the man who had first joined in when Clive started on Nina . |
| 11 | In company where he felt at ease , able to be himself , with Paul Alexandre , Anna Akhmatova , Lunia Czechowska , Modigliani still behaved like the well-bred and courteous young man who had first charmed Paris . |
| 12 | Local people later told Derek that the man who had first approached him was a policeman . |
| 13 | And in those few moments he looked so much like his father , Major John Lewis , the man who had first taken her virginity , and later betrayed her husband . |
| 14 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 15 | Kate had told him that at present there were only women in the house and it seemed sensible that he should have a woman with him , particularly as it was Kate who had first broken the news . |
| 16 | The report was able to recount what had been done in the first year of effort of the newly-organised national campaign for emancipation but to stress continuity through reliance on the circulation of pamphlets by Wilberforce and Clarkson ; reformers were ‘ thus enabled to proceed under the conduct of the same veteran Champions who had first led the battle against the African Slave Trade and who had pursued it to its final extinction ’ . |
| 17 | Three of the accused were identified by name : ( i ) Win Chaddha , head of the Delhi-based Anatronic General Corporation and the Bofors agent in India until late 1985 ; ( ii ) Martin Ardbo , the Bofors managing director at the time of the original 1986 deal with the Indian government [ see p. 35382 ] ; and ( iii ) G. P. Hinduja , a London-based Indian industrialist who had first been implicated in the affair by the Madras-based Hindu newspaper in April 1988 [ see p. 36030 ] . |
| 18 | Ferdinando , a clean white blouse on and freshly shaved , looked the handsome fellow who had first attracted her and the way he carried his son , with ease and pride , made her feel warm towards him . |
| 19 | The sailor who had first spotted land got nothing . |
| 20 | Funnily enough , I was recently asked by Johnnie Walker on his Saturday Sequence show who had first inspired me to want to play the guitar . |
| 21 | The Tower reputedly housed a library of treatises , grimoires , cyclopaedias and symposia second to none , collected by Roxborough and the group of Fifth Dominion magi who 'd first supported the attempt at the Reconciliation . |
| 22 | At Christmas another master who had first arrived in the 1930s retired . |
| 23 | They set out their bedrolls and crouched round the flames , except for the unfortunate Rimir who had first watch . |
| 24 | It was Laura who had first recruited me to this task , she who had seen that I might be involved . |
| 25 | The plaintiffs were the informers against the keepers of the disorderly house who had first pleaded guilty and then later been called up for judgment and sentence . |