Example sentences of "[verb] [art] first person [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | Last year , Campbell Christie became the first person to take complaints over GCHQ to the tribunals , naming a section at the communications centre , K24e , as being responsible for intercepting telexes sent by trade unionists in Eastern Europe . |
2 | Former Massachusetts senator Paul Tsongas , 50 , who abandoned politics in 1984 after being diagnosed as suffering from cancer , became the first person to declare his candidacy for the Democratic Party 's nomination for the 1992 presidential elections . |
3 | AN EIGHT-MONTH-OLD girl from Lennoxtown , Stirlingshire , made British medical history yesterday when she became the first person to start gene therapy to combat a potentially fatal deficiency . |
4 | A TEACHER made legal history yesterday by becoming the first person to win damages for so-called yuppie flu . |
5 | The rock star Midge Ure has become the first person to give a concert at the Oxford Union . |
6 | At The Oval , Tiger caught Dave for 6 off the bowling of Woolley , to become the first person to dismiss his namesake in Test cricket on English soil . |
7 | NORWEGIAN explorer Erling Kagge , 29 , aiming to become the first person to walk alone to the South Pole , left Oslo yesterday after piling on 18lbs of fat with huge meals to give him energy resources for his two months on the ice trekking 814 miles across the Antarctica . |