Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] as the first " in BNC.

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1 erm The second half started as the first half finished , with a again a very erm entertaining game erm in the fiftieth minute , on a break , Almondsbury 's Alex Stocker was nearest to scoring for them when he floated a long ball forward which Mark Sibble was very glad to tip over the bar .
2 Jens Ă–sterlund emerged as the first Sailing Challenge contender but he was chased home by two British boats , Mark Goodchild and Mike Fenwick .
3 TV was then considered ( in Europe and the USA ( to exercise a decisive political influence : de Gaulle emerged as the first French politician who both mastered the instrument , the RTF organization , while proving a charismatic performer .
4 To generate all candidate strings , begin from the start node of the graph ( * ) , take the first route from it ( i.e. the first of the forward pointers ) , and note the letter at the node reached as the first letter of the candidate string .
5 Stirling jumped as the first man of his stick and in the darkness made a bad landing as he could not see the ground .
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