Example sentences of "his [noun] be the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | George was ever-present for nearly three seasons , became only our second post-war goalkeeper to put together a run of 100 consecutive League games ( John Jackson was the first ) , while his hundred appearances straight from his debut was the first achieved by a Palace player for over a quarter of a century . |
| 2 | WHEN Newry 's Errol Lutton makes his Ulster senior debut in the inter-provincials next weekend in Dublin he can thank his lucky stars that his club were the first to complete their Senior One fixtures this season … otherwise he would have missed his big chance . |
| 3 | The classic example of his footwork was the first Wigan try in the 1985 final . |
| 4 | To their amazement , his arrow was the first to pierce the inner gold circle , winning him the silver arrow . |
| 5 | The coins which bear his name are the first Northumbrian silver coins . |
| 6 | His name was the first to come to her mind and his telephone number was in the directory . |
| 7 | The initial defence of his title was the first world championship held in Scotland . |
| 8 | Early Muddy Waters stuff : his stuff was the first slide that I heard and I did n't know what it was ; I did n't know if someone was playing steel guitar ; it sounded like they were fretting the guitar and slidin' . |
| 9 | His diocesan work can be studied in much more detail , for his register is the first extant episcopal register for the diocese of Exeter , and probably in fact the first to be compiled . |
| 10 | Their father 's name was Theunis Krankoor , and it is probable that either he or his father was the first person to take that name too . |
| 11 | Yong and his father were the first people we had met who had actually been to Aru . |
| 12 | His government was the first Arab one to condemn the Iraqi invasion , and the first to send troops ( around 1,300 of them ) to join the alliance in Saudi Arabia . |
| 13 | He was also a strong supporter of co-education and his daughter was the first girl to enter the school . |
| 14 | His book is the first to be based on close technical scrutiny of the parchment , which revealed several erased preparatory drawings that point to some controversy among the medieval planners . |
| 15 | His grandfather was the first white man in Carter County and built a fort against hostile Indians in 1883 . |
| 16 | His grandfather was the first Earl of Gainsborough . |
| 17 | His visit is the first by a Soviet defence minister to the US . |
| 18 | His visit was the first by an Israeli head of government to Bulgaria , and followed the restoration of diplomatic links in May 1990 [ see p. 37749 ] . |
| 19 | John Kelsey-Fry , counsel for Marsh , said his client was the first of the two men to volunteer to be interviewed about what had happened to the missing money . |