Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Only after he had set to work , at Halley 's urging , on the tract that eventually became the first book of the Principia did Newton abandon vortices and envisage attractive — and repulsive — forces in central bodies . |
| 3 | He duly produced the first work on natural history to use this new technique , Zoological Illustrations ( 6 volumes , 1820–33 ) and at the same time , Exotic Conchology ( 1821–2 ) . |
| 4 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 5 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 6 | The cork popped and Willi skilfully caught the first fountain in a glass . |
| 7 | In that campaign , which he ended with a score of 221 , he also rode the fastest 100 by a jump jockey , smashed Jonjo O'Neill 's record seasonal total of 149 , and not only became the first man to ride 200 winners over jumps , but the first to do so under either code since Sir Gordon Richards did so on the Flat in 1952 . |
| 8 | In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 9 | Er we were married three years , no children and I began to get desperate again and an anyway along came the first then came the second . |
| 10 | Spreadbury , on his first trip to the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Bank-sponsored tournament , was the subject of an official protest after he inadvertently allowed the first half of a quarter-final match to overrun by 1½ minutes — a long way beyond the regulation seven minutes . |
| 11 | Though they only opened the first supermarket in 1961 , there are over 40 today . |
| 12 | Anglicans and Protestants now not only heard the first systematic teaching on the word of God in the Church ever formulated by a Catholic Council ( for Trent had only dealt with particular points at issue with the Reformers ) , but also admired it . |
| 13 | I only watched the first 10mins of the FA cup game yesterday … funny how no mention was made of Pallisters hand ball in the box … or dick head schmeichal pushing Kamara in the face . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's very early days — we only saw the first draft last month and it could be three years before it is implemented . |
| 15 | I only saw the first page which , in case you 've forgotten the system , shows the subject 's photograph , age , length of time spent in the employ of the company , when he — or she — joined us , when he — or she — left us . |
| 16 | Not only did the First World War produce a major crisis of authority for the old order , but it also resulted in the harnessing by the State , on an unprecedented scale , of the power and resources of the nation towards the war effort . |
| 17 | The Napoleonic Wars brought about a large increase in the government debt and , in the twentieth century , so did the First World War and the Second World War . |
| 18 | I only had the first one to worry about . |
| 19 | ’ So ran the first paragraph introducing the venture . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Tom McKean was relieved to avoid one of his familiar acts of self-destruction as he successfully negotiated the first hurdle of his quest for gold in the 800m . |
| 21 | The Court of Appeals expressly rejected the first resort cases as not well reasoned , and as giving an advantage to foreign litigants . |
| 22 | Hudson , 93 at the interval , soon became the first batsman to score a century on Test debut for South Africa — Wessels had achieved the feat for Australia — and he prevailed over the partnership that carried South Africa to within eight of the lead entering the third day . |
| 23 | They bought a garage at Caterham from Anthony Crook , who still runs the Bristol Car Company , and began by carrying out ‘ all the usual garage things ’ , and soon became the first Lotus agent when the manufacturer began to expand . |
| 24 | Two pips of a Ribston Pippin , sown in a pot in about 1830 , grew into seedlings of two new and promising varieties , Cox 's Pomona and Cox 's Orange Pippin , though the second soon eclipsed the first to become the most popular English dessert apple . |
| 25 | Mains thus became the first ( and I am afraid , only ) rugby man who ever considered I knew anything about the game . |
| 26 | The hostility which this aroused , as well as his role as royal guardian of London , resulted in his death at the hands of a furious mob and he thus became the first bishop since Becket to be murdered . |
| 27 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 28 | Boothroyd thus became the first woman Speaker . |
| 29 | ‘ Just the job , ’ thought the enthusiastic Gary , and thus became the first person in history to attempt to convert a quartet of Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 30 | Thérèse no longer shared the first job of the day with her cousin . |