Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] british [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Prime Minister met the first British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest — and got her name wrong . |
| 2 | He played for Shropshire and Herefordshire boys and was in the same team as Sandy Lyle ; many years later they met in the final of the 1987 Suntory World Matchplay Championship and Woosnam became the first British winner . |
| 3 | Lyle , who became the first British winner of the title in 1988 , has been concerned throughout 30-year-old Jolande 's pregancy . |
| 4 | A man of 65 , from Bristol , last week became the first British patient to benefit from the technique , known as rotational angioplasty . |
| 5 | BRIDE Laura Browne , 34 , arrived in Cinderella 's glass coach yesterday as she and fiance Robbie Carter , 38 , from Silsoe , Beds , became the first British couple to marry at Disney World , Florida . |
| 6 | In 1983 Sheila Keech became the first British woman to receive a WFD medal of honour for services to the deaf . |
| 7 | Shortly before 8am on Monday , Ms Stephens , 31 , a journalist from Fulham , west London , became the first British woman to climb Everest . |
| 8 | HOCKEY star Steve Martin yesterday became the first British player sent off in Olympic Games history . |
| 9 | Helen Sharman , 27 , became the first British cosmonaut on May 18 . |
| 10 | Macari signed for Celtic in 1966 , and was an exciting reserve prospect during the Lisbon Lion era , when the club became the first British team to win the coveted European Cup . |
| 11 | Livingston became the third British athlete after pole vaulter Jeff Gutteridge and shot-putter Neal Brunning to be banned for failing a drugs test . |
| 12 | You are cordially invited to attend the fourth British Gas Annual General Meeting which will be held in the Arena at the national Exhibition Centre ( NEC ) , Birmingham on Thursday 9 August 1990 . |
| 13 | DURHAM WASPS ' dream of becoming the first British League team to win a European game abroad ended in a 10-1 defeat here last night after Robert Herckerrath had opened the scoring for Gunco Pandas of Rotterdam in the second minute . |
| 14 | But that is petty cash to the jackpot the Rangers players and the club will earn from becoming the first British side to play under the changed European Cup format . |
| 15 | TOP-of-the-world mountaineer Rebecca Stephens was last night recovering in a snow-swept tent , exhausted but safe , after becoming the first British woman to climb Everest . |
| 16 | NEWS of Rebecca Stephens ' success in becoming the first British woman to reach the summit of Everest was flashed around the world with the help of an Essex-based company from the Marconi group . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Sally Gunnell yesterday outlined her dream of becoming the first British woman to win a unique ‘ grand slam ’ of major championship gold medals . |
| 18 | The South Wales Cricket Association XI came within a raindrop of becoming the first British team to meet South Africa during their tour of Australia and New Zealand . |
| 19 | Together , Hunter and McColgan could help achieve the first British team success since the English women 's squad triumphed at Neuchatel , Swotzerland , in 1986 . |
| 20 | STEVE DAVIS might have begun his season behind the other players but he started it in style by capturing the first British ranking event , the BCE International , when beating Stephen Hendry , his most obvious rival , 9-4 at Trentham Gardens , Stoke , writes Janice Hale . |
| 21 | Dave Walsh and Roger Mear have made the first British ascent of mighty Nanga Parbat , 8,165 metres . |
| 22 | A pilot from Wiltshire has become the first British serviceman to be decorated in Bosnia . |
| 23 | Reading Transport has become the first British bus company to run its buses on a fuel derived from oilseed rape . |
| 24 | THE Isle of Man has become the first British authority to issue plastic identity card driving licences with tamper-proof colour photographs , using a £30,000 digital imaging system developed by Hitachi and NBS Card Systems of Weybridge , Surrey . |
| 25 | Many kings in the past have kept collections of animals and in the 12th Century A.D. King Henry I founded the first British zoo . |
| 26 | Runner-up three times , Mansell finished second in the Hungarian Grand Prix — enough to clinch the world drivers ’ title and become the first British champion since James Hunt in 1976 . |
| 27 | The people of Ross on Wye claim the first British balloon flight was over the town on February the 22nd 1784 . |
| 28 | Throughout 1971 and 1972 he remained in Britain 's top three heavyweights , but was overlooked when the BBBC ordered a series of eliminators to decide the next British title challenger . |
| 29 | Prior further claims that union support for such an industrial policy was a central plank of the social contract , which therefore ‘ represented the first British attempt within a framework of parliamentary democracy to build in a process of extra-parliamentary mobilisation around the policies of a Labour government ’ ( ibid. , p. 4 ) . |
| 30 | Hornby and Barlow also climbed the South-East Ridge of Mount Crossons , making the second British ascent following Roy Ruddle 's in 1991 . |