Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he witnessed the first assault . |
| 2 | So he had the first name of somebody famous . |
| 3 | Indeed , the captaincy of that side fell to Albert in mid-season after the retirement of Ted Smith and so he became the first Palace skipper to lead our club to a Football League championship . |
| 4 | A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road . |
| 5 | Three days later he became the first President in American history to resign his office . |
| 6 | An outstanding sportsman , in 1936 he became Irish universities ' heavyweight boxing champion and two years later he received the first of six rugby international caps for Ireland , touring South Africa in 1938 with the British Lions . |
| 7 | Today he became the first person to be charged under a new law introduced this month of causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 8 | A month ago he chaired the first meeting of the ‘ great and the good ’ who make up the Cairngorms Working Party . |
| 9 | It did not please him ; almost he wished the first pledge back again , so naked did he feel now without his armour of obstinacy . |
| 10 | Then he reached the first green of the tournament proper — rather than the first green of the practice rounds . |
| 11 | There he delivered the first of his attacks upon the press lords : ‘ There is nothing more curious in modern evolution than the effect of an enormous fortune rapidly made and the control of newspapers of your own . |
| 12 | Either he took the first plane to Dublin , or he rejected them out of hand . |