Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.

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1 Jamie knew that wherever he was in the wild world , far from his home , he was not the first Scotsman to hammer at the gate .
2 Reginald Bassett 's 1931 : Political Crisis , published in 1958 , was the first attempt to look at the events of 1931 free from contemporary preconceptions .
3 However , when you ask the first child to look at the card written on the piece of paper , it is the correct one .
4 The first person to arrive at the scene was a flying instructor who had run 300 metres carrying a fire extinguisher to the scene .
5 The first vessel to load at the new facility was the ‘ Secil Angola ’ which arrived on 27th April to load 3945 tonnes .
6 He 's the first artist to feature at the New National Bowl .
7 The first ship to discharge at the new facility was the S.S. Ebbrix , a small vessel owned by T. R. Rix & Sons Ltd. of Hull which arrived on 23rd August .
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