Example sentences of "he [vb past] the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , he made the first of his mistakes . |
| 2 | Pérez escaped from his residence just before it was surrounded , and went to a private television station from which he made the first of four broadcasts to the nation repudiating the coup . |
| 3 | He became the first from his club to be capped , in the Second Test of the recent tour of Australia in Hastings ' injury absence , and he played for Scotland ‘ A ’ against Spain in Madrid on September 12 . |
| 4 | In 1859 he built the first of his 2–2–2 type express locomotives , two of which took part in the railway ‘ race ’ between east- and west-coast companies from London to Edinburgh in 1888 , and in 1863 he developed the 2–4–0 type for use over more heavily graded routes . |
| 5 | He was centrally positioned in the six-yard box when he headed the first after 15 minutes ; the second , eight minutes before half-time , he met equally powerfully at the far post . |
| 6 | An outstanding sportsman , in 1936 he became Irish universities ' heavyweight boxing champion and two years later he received the first of six rugby international caps for Ireland , touring South Africa in 1938 with the British Lions . |
| 7 | A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road . |
| 8 | He broke new ground in musical humour when in 1956 he organized the first of a series of concerts of symphonic caricature at which new music , some of it by respected composers like Malcolm Arnold , was played on ludicrous instruments or to the accompaniment of vacuum cleaners or road rammers . |
| 9 | Bruce Babbitt , the interior secretary , stepped into this fetid atmosphere on April 30th when he chaired the first of four meetings in the west to hear testimony about grazing on federal land . |
| 10 | As he reached them he heard the first of the police sirens in the distance . |
| 11 | Later , he delivered the first of his high-tech rallies with a punchy speech and the evening was rounded off with a five-point lead in an opinion poll . |
| 12 | There he delivered the first of his attacks upon the press lords : ‘ There is nothing more curious in modern evolution than the effect of an enormous fortune rapidly made and the control of newspapers of your own . |
| 13 | At last he saw the first of the dawn , like light faintly perceived round a corner at the far end of an unknown burrow ; and in the same moment a yellow-hammer sang . |
| 14 | On 6 January he attended the first of the sessions of the high court of justice preparatory to the trial , and then attended most sittings of the court . |
| 15 | Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody has a few thousand to go before he can ever catch Carson … that ca n't be done in jump racing of course … but the new champion is off to a flying start to the new season … two winners on saturday he won the first at Newton Abbot this afternoon |
| 16 | This was the stark warning given by Professor David Harvey of Newcastle University , when he presented the first in a series of Northern Foods ' milk industry papers . |
| 17 | He had the first near violent encounter at Type ninety — did you hear about this , the fist fight with Benguiat . |
| 18 | He wrote the first for Lady Carbery , whose piety he greatly admired , and its sequel in her memory . |
| 19 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 20 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |
| 21 | In 1981 he launched the first of a series of closely watched consumer surveys . |
| 22 | He tackled the first by systematically awarding government contracts to northern businessmen ( former traders ) from his own area of Garoua and the second by insisting that schools and the civil service must be bilingual , a policy which has been extremely successful . |
| 23 | In 1890 he published the first of his two major textbooks , Theory of Light , followed by Theory of Heat in 1894 . |