Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 2 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 3 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 4 | DEC specialist , $100m-a-year Micro Technology Inc , has acquired five-year-old SF2 Corporation , the Sunnyvale , California-based firm that pioneered and commercially shipped the first fault tolerant disk array storage device known as RAID 5/6 . |
| 5 | In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 6 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 7 | ‘ Just the job , ’ thought the enthusiastic Gary , and thus became the first person in history to attempt to convert a quartet of Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 8 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 9 | They bought a garage at Caterham from Anthony Crook , who still runs the Bristol Car Company , and began by carrying out ‘ all the usual garage things ’ , and soon became the first Lotus agent when the manufacturer began to expand . |
| 10 | He set off for Ayr yesterday with five more under his belt and promptly won the first three races , two in photos . |
| 11 | George Woodger , an inside or centre-forward of the highest quality , played for the Palace in our earliest years and quickly became the first Palace ‘ superstar ’ — and that in an age when today 's publicity was unthinkable . |
| 12 | Problems with a flaked bone in his foot , a broken toe and then hamstring and rib injuries meant that McLeish played only seven times for Aberdeen last season and also missed the first 11 matches of this one . |
| 13 | No , I just came over fields , I went along and followed a dyke , I turned left at the cafe , and then followed the first I saw going up . |
| 14 | ‘ And then came the first tragedy . |
| 15 | And then came the first Wednesday in October — the day of the Woman 's Institute bush walk . |
| 16 | Kept in training as a four-year-old , Pebbles won the Trusthouse Forte Mile at Sandown Park , was second in the Prince of Wales 's Stakes at Royal Ascot , and then became the first filly ever to win the Eclipse , beating subsequent Arc winner Rainbow Quest by two lengths . |
| 17 | Goleta , California-based , SmartStar Corporation , the company that years ago put the first fourth generation language interface on a relational database machine and then created the first VAX/VMS 4GL , has popped up with SmartStar Vision , a new object-oriented application development environment . |
| 18 | INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE , 1987 Nouvel 's greatest triumph to date was also the first of President Mitterrand 's ‘ Grands Projets ’ and subsequently became the first building in a Western country to receive an Aga Khan Award . |
| 19 | Fearing the worst , he stepped forward and reluctantly pushed the first door wide open , fully expecting to see a sprawled , lifeless body . |