Example sentences of "[adv] the first man " in BNC.

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1 So the first man in the smithy in the morning had to pick up a hammer and strike the anvil three times — just to let the old man know we were on the job .
2 So the first man goes the house and he goes and opens the door and you hear the door .
3 To return to Griffith 's experiments , Griffith was not the first man to draw strong glass fibres but he was probably the first man to do it in a systematic way and to provide a plausible explanation of the results .
4 Moreton and Furley are not the first men to die of redundancy .
5 Mike is always the first man on the drive , where it really hurts , and he can stay on his feet .
6 ‘ But yer always the first man aht , ’ pointed out the Old Stager agreeably .
7 He was also the first man to use the word ‘ Americanism ’ in 1781 .
8 I also remember meeting Johnnie Cooper , then a subaltern , but a long serving ex-N.C.O. who had been probably the first man recruited to the infant regiment by David Stirling .
9 To return to Griffith 's experiments , Griffith was not the first man to draw strong glass fibres but he was probably the first man to do it in a systematic way and to provide a plausible explanation of the results .
10 He was probably the first man to solo 8a on French rock ; made the first winter lone ascent of the South Face of the Aiguille du Fou ( scene of Alan Rouse 's famed injury during an earlier , summer , solo ) and also made one of the most prestigious ascents in the area with his solo of Divine Providence — Patrick Gabarrou 's 1984 desperate on the Grand Pilier d'Angle buttress on Mont Blanc .
11 He was the first to recommend skiing as a sport to the Norwegians themselves and probably the first man to ski in the Alps .
12 , Thomas ( d. 1295 ) , knight and traitor , was probably the first man in England to be executed for spying .
13 ‘ I felt betrayed , ’ said Quinn , ‘ when I discovered I was n't the first man .
14 He is n't the first man to leave his wife and , though I understand your instinct to protect your sister , surely she could and should fight her own battles ? ’
15 Then the first man stalked forward , blasting several more shots into the car ; the radiator disappeared in a cloud of steam , the bonnet was blown off , and the car suddenly lurched downwards and circled as half the wheel nearest Howard was blown away .
16 Then the first man came along , with talk of marriage .
17 When you land on the icescape you can imagine how the first men on the moon felt .
18 I replied that I had watched my television all day when the first man stepped on the moon .
19 WATER POLO : Great Britain 's new manager , Noel Winter , makes his competitive debut with his squad this weekend , when the first men 's international tournament in this country for six years takes place at Crystal Palace , writes Tony Jefferies .
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