Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historical sketch included in Macdonald 's 1904 survey of women in the printing trades states that it was indeed the pupils of Merchant Company Schools who formed the first recruits , and that these were " a better class of girl " , sometimes described as " stickit " ( would-be ) teachers . |
| 2 | Martin Pipe enlisted the help of Michael Dickinson , the now US-based trainer who saddled the first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup , in the preparation of Granville Again who hit form on the day it mattered to scoop the £140,000 Smurfit Champion Hurdle . |
| 3 | From videofilms shown to reporters in Saudi Arabia , and the reports of the few journalists who spent the first days of the war in Baghdad , other successful hits can be independently verified . |
| 4 | It was Freud who made the first extensive use of hypnosis to probe the depths of the subconscious mind . |
| 5 | The business is the brainchild of chief executive officer , David Stamm , a co-founder of Daisy Systems and the Intel Corp veteran who designed the first single-chip 8-bit microprocessor . |
| 6 | It was the visitors who created the first half 's best chance through their lively striker , Marshall . |
| 7 | It was Janice who made the first move to end the evening . |
| 8 | Michael Roberts could ride either but sticks to Lyric Fantasy who became the first two-year-old filly to win the Nunthorpe at Yor |
| 9 | Stephen is a boy of mixed Jamaican and St Vincentian parentage , born and raised only a few miles away from the white girl who provided the first narrative . |
| 10 | Draper was an English scientist who became the first president of the American Chemical Society . |
| 11 | Consider the case of Abdellatif Sbili who led the first Moroccan nationalist campaign against the French in 1930 : |
| 12 | It 's another thing that makes me wonder if the crazed geniuses who developed the first Intelloids were n't perpetrating some subtly painful joke on the human race . |
| 13 | BELOW The great 19th-century scientist Friedrich Wohler who prepared the first organic compound derived from inorganic chemicals . |
| 14 | The Lawns at Broseley , the home of John Wilkinson who built the first iron bridge , now houses a large impressive collection of English pottery and porcelain . |
| 15 | Pliny described it as being of use , if scattered in a pool , for curing unhealthy fish ; it was said to have been grown in the Emperor Charlemagne 's herb garden ; Ion the Gardener who wrote the first book about gardening in Britain included it as his favourite herb , and it was mentioned in Langland 's famous poem Piers Plowman . |
| 16 | That lost cause was started in 1861 by Citadel cadets who fired the first shots at Fort Sumter , outside Charleston . |
| 17 | The Wainwright walk was made famous by the author of the same name who pioneered the first coast to coast walk in 1972 . |
| 18 | The civil servants who drafted the first version of the Bill , the Green Book , were not united on any issue but the simple one that there needed to be reform at all . |
| 19 | It was James Watt who made the first major improvements to the principles worked out by Newcomen . |
| 20 | It was a woman who got the first question in , her voice rising shrilly above the others . |
| 21 | Surprisingly it was the student who took the first frame , managing a break of 54 . |
| 22 | They are searching for passengers who made the first ever trip with them to Jersey 40 years ago . |
| 23 | They are searching for passengers who made the first ever trip with them to Jersey 40 years ago . |
| 24 | So it is that tomorrow , ITV will screen a profile of the man who spent the first eight years of his life in Abyssinia ( now Ethiopia ) and graduated to serious eccentricity via an English prep school ( where he was beaten ) , Eton ( where he learned to box ) and finally Oxford ( where he was a boxing blue and acquired the dramatically-bent nose which for six decades has lent drama to what would in any case have been a distinguished face ) . |
| 25 | Alcuin , the man who described the first attack , thought they were terrifying and wicked . |
| 26 | A SMALL point on your book review of Durham : Birth of a First-Class County : had Ralph Dellor consulted the club or been at the match , he would have noted that it was Paul Parker who took the first ball from Oxford University pace bowler Michael Jeh , and not John Glendenen . |
| 27 | In rural areas only about 6 per cent of the children who entered the first grade completed the primary cycle , and half these entrants dropped out after the first grade . |
| 28 | In both Tests , two or three Englishmen looked well set , but failed to convert good innings into substantial ones , unlike India who won the first Test through Azharuddin 's great innings of 182 and laid the foundation for the Madras victory with Tendulkar 's 165 and Sidhu 's 106 . |
| 29 | The link with the scary world of Spielberg was revealed to potential future students who visited the first of the university 's two open days . |
| 30 | It was Geoff Yeadon and Oliver Statham who made the first connection in the jigsaw , 12 years ago . |