Example sentences of "he [verb] be the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest he cites is the first side of ‘ A Miniature Concert ’ , recorded on 26 February 1925 and issued on Victor 35753 ( and in Britain on Zonophone A302 ) . |
| 2 | He had been the first to reach Maggie , though her screams had brought people running from all the neighbouring tenements . |
| 3 | Sheppard , already famous as ‘ the radio parson ’ — he had been the first person to broadcast a church service — was Canon of St Pauls . |
| 4 | Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France . |
| 5 | Once he had been The First Hand Supreme in all Chung Kuo , Master of Masters and eight times winner of the great annual championship held in Suchow . |
| 6 | He had been the first to hear the sound of the car approaching , and the quickest to identify it , for he was the only one who looked completely unsurprised as it rolled gently alongside the Aston Martin , while all the rest had checked momentarily and turned to gaze . |
| 7 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 8 | He had been the first serf-owner to take advantage of the reformist Law on Obligated Peasants . |
| 9 | Keith Hall has built a four bedroomed house which he claims is the first in the country to be environment friendly . |