Example sentences of "he [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let him make the first move . |
| 2 | He led St Colman 's College to victory over old adversaries St Pat 's , Maghera in the MacRory Cup final with a marvellous individual performance that saw him become the first winner of the Iggy Jones Memorial Trophy . |
| 3 | David Strang , whose South African-based Glaswegian parents were in Toronto to see him become the first Briton to win a world indoors 1,500m medal , also has a connection with the Boyle squad . |
| 4 | With great reluctance , as he maintained , Ledeen carried the message from Israel 's prime minister , Shimon Peres , to McFarlane in the summer of 1985 , asking him to approve the first shipment of arms from Israel to Iran ; McFarlane replied ‘ Okay , just that one shipment and nothing else ’ , words that soon acquired a hollow , awful sound . |
| 5 | Hotspur hung back from him , and let him gather himself , waited , indeed , for him to make the first assay , and put it by when it was made with the utmost care and forbearance . |
| 6 | If he was at all interested it was up to him to make the first move . |
| 7 | She wanted desperately to reach out to him , but she knew that she had to wait for him to make the first move . |
| 8 | Both Johnson Matthey and the Ceramic Society supported Mike through this transition , allowing him to become the first president of the Canadian Ceramic Society to reside outside of Canada . |
| 9 | Karajan 's response to Honegger 's Symphonie liturgique and its near contemporary , Strauss 's Metamorphosen , of which he made the first recording in 1947 , provides specifically musical evidence of Karajan 's priorities and allegiances that I have yet to see considered by those who have become so concerned to analyse and recycle often erroneous information about his alleged political sympathies before and during the Second World War . |
| 10 | He made the first recording of the human electrocardiogram in 1887 , an important advance which , in other hands , had widespread applications in medicine . |
| 11 | Now in his 40s , he made the first solo ascent of Point Young on the Grandes Jorasses in August . |
| 12 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 13 | Oh well it er General , he made the first road . |
| 14 | He made the first goal with a delightful , a dazzling run . |
| 15 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 16 | In October he passed the first part of the examination for ordination , and afterwards could not understand how he passed . |
| 17 | Simon stayed at home working for the Bar Examination , he passed the first part quite soon just as he had predicted . |
| 18 | In the mid-Sixties , as a prominent if unlikely member of London 's ‘ underground ’ , he produced the first single by the Pink Floyd . |
| 19 | Yet despite his didactic purpose and his concern with detailed narrative , he produced the first work to immortalize a castellan dynasty in France . |
| 20 | As Superintendent in Bolton he produced the first issue of The Deaf Quarterly News as a local news-sheet of four pages . |
| 21 | NEWTOWNABBEY mayor Alderman Arthur Kell will send a rocket into orbit this Saturday when he lights the first firework at the Valley Leisure Centre 's annual display . |
| 22 | Soon , he became the first man to drive on an Icelandic glacier . |
| 23 | It was while he was travelling to South Africa in 1899 via India that he became the first man ever to take a cine-film of a total eclipse of the sun . |
| 24 | Running for Darlington , he became the first man to run 100 yards in even time ( 10 seconds dead ) under championship conditions when he took the Amateur Athletics Association ( AAA ) title in 1886 at Stamford Bridge . |
| 25 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |
| 26 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 27 | His career did not end there , for in 1903 , when the light heavyweight division was created , he became the first man to win three world titles when he became the world light heavyweight champion after beating George Gardner in twenty rounds at San Francisco . |
| 28 | He became the first man in history to walk into a restaurant and trip over a ceiling . |
| 29 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 30 | For his day 's exploits , he became the first American in the war to be awarded the Légion d'Honneur . |