Example sentences of "[noun prp] which [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the appeal of crusading was , if anything , even stronger to those aristocratic houses just below the level of the princely : it was , after all , the house of Boulogne which produced the first two rulers of Jerusalem . |
| 2 | School Mission had first been conceived by Edward Thring , headmaster of Uppingham , but it was Eton which opened the first club in 1880 , followed by Harrow in 1883 . |
| 3 | Furber was also one of the Society of Gardeners led by Miller which published the first part of its Catalogus Plantarum in 1730 , but by then he had issued two catalogues of his own , one of English and foreign trees , the other of ‘ the Best and Choicest Fruit Trees ’ ( both in 1727 ) . |
| 4 | Owers showed no signs of rustiness , often winning the ball in midfield and supplying the deadly pass to Goodman which produced the first goal . |
| 5 | Emboldened by Carters support , the Shah ordered the publications of the scurrilous attack on Khomeini which precipitated the first of the riots against him and , within a year , had led to his fall , by early 1979 , after what he saw as US failure to support him , and as he now looked for a refuge form Morocco he was less certain . |
| 6 | Other Scout and Guide movements were established at Leicester , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Liverpool , Coventry and in Glasgow which produced the first deaf Senior Scout in George Scott who took part in a Grand Rally of Senior Scouts at Ibrox Park which was inspected by the Duke of Windsor in 1931 . |