Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] the first [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Queen Elizabeth II paid an official nine-day visit to the USA starting on May 14 , and became the first United Kingdom sovereign to address the US Congress , meeting in joint session on May 16 . |
| 2 | He made his name as mayor of West Berlin in 1957-66 , was Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor from 1966 to 1969 , and became the first SPD Chancellor in 1969 [ see p. 23618 ] . |
| 3 | The woman screamed , the man went for the bedroom door and met the first FBI man on the landing . |
| 4 | Donald Healey , who designed and built the first Healeys in the 1940s , also worked on the new design details . |
| 5 | Wavell Wakefield not only organised , selected and captained the first RAF side to win the Inter Service tournament but also led England during the golden era of the 1920s . |
| 6 | After travelling extensively at home ( and becoming the first Romanov to see Siberia ) , in 1838 and 1839 he toured Europe . |
| 7 | These last three territories lay south of the Sava-Danube line and represented the first Habsburg advance across that symbolic divide since the catastrophe of Mohács in 1526 . |
| 8 | Sinn Fein MP 's met in Dublin and formed the First Dail in January 1919 . |
| 9 | Her independence and organizing ability had been displayed early when she joined the Girl Scouts in 1909 and formed the first Bournemouth troop of guides . |
| 10 | His name too , with all its starkness and its distinctly masculine aura , fitted him exactly — though this man possessed none of the innocence and wonder the first Adam must have had in his Garden of Eden . |
| 11 | Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky and becomes the first US chess champion : posing the question , Where is Reykjavik ? |