Example sentences of "[vb past] the first man " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Soon , he became the first man to drive on an Icelandic glacier . |
| 3 | It was while he was travelling to South Africa in 1899 via India that he became the first man ever to take a cine-film of a total eclipse of the sun . |
| 4 | In 1911 , Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole . |
| 5 | Running for Darlington , he became the first man to run 100 yards in even time ( 10 seconds dead ) under championship conditions when he took the Amateur Athletics Association ( AAA ) title in 1886 at Stamford Bridge . |
| 6 | Sir Aubrey also became the first man in Test history to dismiss a namesake when he bowled F.W. for 7 in the first innings . |
| 7 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | ENGLAND 'S 1973–74 Test series in West Indies had many things to savour : Sobers became the first man to score 8000 Test runs . |
| 10 | His career did not end there , for in 1903 , when the light heavyweight division was created , he became the first man to win three world titles when he became the world light heavyweight champion after beating George Gardner in twenty rounds at San Francisco . |
| 11 | He became the first man in history to walk into a restaurant and trip over a ceiling . |
| 12 | JAMES Courtney became the first man to win the Manx Grand Prix Lightweight , Junior and Newcomers Lightweight races when he completed a double in the Isle of Man yesterday . |
| 13 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 14 | He also created the first man , Purusha , from the navel of Vishnu . |
| 15 | ’ 'T IS a wench , ’ muttered the first man uneasily . |
| 16 | ‘ We are three kings who have travelled far from the lands of the east , ’ replied the first man . |
| 17 | I had dropped my bag as I hit the first man , but that did n't matter . |
| 18 | I hit the first man with the wooden end of my gun and he fell down , but I had to shoot the second man . |
| 19 | ‘ You know you have no father or mother , ’ said the first man , ‘ and that you have been brought up with other orphans ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , ’ said the first man . |
| 21 | ‘ You have been a help to us and now we are done with you , ’ said the first man , smiling up at him . |
| 22 | ‘ They can hit all sorts of things on their way downriver , ’ said the first man , looking at his friend chidingly . |
| 23 | I greeted the first man to approach the car in my broken French and to my surprise , he asked if I would prefer to continue the conversation in English . |