Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] black [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early 1980s was a time of immense fertility for blacks in sport : as well as their presence in athletics , boxing and soccer , Desmond Douglas established himself as the top table tennis player in the UK , ; Eugene Codrington consolidated his captaincy of the British karate team ( composed mainly of other blacks ) and Roland Butcher became the second black player to play for an MCC touring side ( the first being Basil D'Oliviera of South Africa ) . |
| 2 | One little piece of history was made when Roland Butcher became the first black man to play for England , and by a neat coincidence it was on the ground just fourteen miles from his birth-place . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ashe , married with a five-year-old daughter , became the first black man to win the men 's title at Wimbledon in the 1975 final against Jimmy Con-nors . |
| 5 | Athletics , to a more limited extent , commanded some attention , beginning in the late nineteenth century with Arthur Wharton who later became the first black footballer to play league soccer . |
| 6 | Ismail Mahomed became the first black judge in the country 's history when he took his seat in the Supreme Court on Aug. 12 . |
| 7 | Leeds United 's winger Albert Johanneson became the first black player to appear at Wembley in the 1965 Cup Final against Liverpool , who won 2–1 after extra time . |
| 8 | Anderson became the first black player to play in a full international game for England in 1979 . |
| 9 | On June 13 Theo Mitchell became the first black politician to win a major party nomination for a statewide office in South Carolina when he secured the Democratic gubernatorial nomination with 59 per cent of the vote ; Mitchell was to face Republican incumbent Carroll Campbell . |
| 10 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 11 | Democrat Carol Moseley from Illinios became the first black woman to be elected to the Senate . |
| 12 | In Connecticut Gary Franks became the first black Republican to serve in the House since the Second World War . |
| 13 | Sixteen years and one month later , Bunny Johnson became the fourth black boxer to win a Lonsdale Belt , the most coveted award in British boxing ( Randolph Turpin was the first in 1956 , Bunny Sterling the second in 1973 , Maurice Hope the third in 1976 ) . |
| 14 | She could recall seeing the first black insect flying towards her and then she must have fainted . |
| 15 | He did so successfully in 1948 , outpointing Vince Hawkins at Birmingham and thus becoming the first black champion to be recognized by the BBBC . |
| 16 | The announcement by Gray , 49 , caused widespread consternation amongst political commentators as his successful 12-year congressional career had led many to predict that he would become the first black Speaker of the House . |
| 17 | In New York , television computer projections suggested Mr David Dinkins , a Democrat , would become the first black mayor of the city , beating the Republican , Mr Rudolph Giuliani . |
| 18 | Herman Ouseley has become the first black chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 19 | In contesting the run-off , Young had become the first black candidate to progress beyond the primary stage of the electoral process for any state-wide office within the state of Georgia . |
| 20 | In the mayoral elections in Rio de Janeiro , César Maia of the PMDB defeated Benedia da Silva of the PT , who in 1987 had become the first black woman member of the Congress . |
| 21 | THE vote that gave the Democrats the White House and is expected to give them their tightest grip on Congress in decades also saw the first black woman elected to the Senate . |
| 22 | Pindling , who served as Prime Minister for 25 years , had led the first black government and in 1967 broke the power of the Bay Street Boys , the white colonial merchants who dominated the economy and ran the islands like a private club . |
| 23 | In the event , John Conteh dropped down a division and Johnson took his place , proving the legitimacy of his claim by beating two contenders and then the champion to become the first black heavyweight champion of Great Britain . |
| 24 | In 1975 , he realized an ambition he had nursed since his arrival : to become the first black heavyweight champion of Great Britain . |
| 25 | At Haringey it needed the direct intervention of council leader Bernie Grant , later to become the first black MP for Tottenham , to change the policy of leaving all investment decisions to the advisers . |
| 26 | His Democratic opponent , Doug Wilder , hoping on 7 November to become the first black governor of a US state , has been forcing him to back-pedal since . |
| 27 | And , at the start of the 1940s , a baseball administrator named Branch Rickey began his search for the man destined to become the first black player in a white team . |