Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] became the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dayflower made history last week at York when she became the first Dubai trained runner to win in England and 31-year-old trainer Indian Satish Seewar will be hoping for a similar landmark in Ireland . |
| 2 | AN EIGHT-MONTH-OLD girl from Lennoxtown , Stirlingshire , made British medical history yesterday when she became the first person to start gene therapy to combat a potentially fatal deficiency . |
| 3 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
| 4 | BRITISH Airways pilot Barbara Harmer flew into the record books yesterday when she became the first woman to operate a Concorde . |
| 5 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
| 6 | Around the world — in Japan where ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ won record of the year in its top music awards , in Israel where Kylie was voted most popular female singer of the year and Finland where she became the first artist ever to have four consecutive number ones in a year — the picture was the same : gold , silver and platinum framed . |
| 7 | In his autobiography Nothing Venture Nothing Win Hillary describes the moment in 1953 when they became the first people ever to reach the top of Everest . |
| 8 | Emile Faurie , from Gloucestershire , got them underway yesterday when he became the first Briton to reach 1600 marks and today Laura Fry was only 20 points below on Quarryman , while Richard Davison , the last of the team , won 1483 points on Master JCB . |
| 9 | He returned to racecourse action for his hurdling debut at Kempton a year ago , and progressed to win his next three outings , culminating in a narrow victory from Oh So Risky at Cheltenham , where he became the first novice to win the Champion Hurdle since Doorknocker in 1956 . |
| 10 | In nineteen sixty five , which was rather after I came here , he moved to the University of Sussex , where he became the first Dean of the new School of Biological Sciences , and that was the beginning of a very distinguished contribution to scientific work in this university . |