Example sentences of "he [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 32 | Today he became the first person to be charged under a new law introduced this month of causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 33 | After finishing second in the World Championship in 1983 and 1984 , Alain Prost lose the " nearly man " tag in 1985 as he became the first Frenchman to win the title . |
| 34 | In 1852 he became the first Moderator of the new Presbytery of Otago Province and in 1869 the first Chancellor of the University of Otago . |
| 35 | He became the first Marquess of Exeter in 1801 and he died in 1804 , aged 50 . |
| 36 | In nineteen sixty five , which was rather after I came here , he moved to the University of Sussex , where he became the first Dean of the new School of Biological Sciences , and that was the beginning of a very distinguished contribution to scientific work in this university . |
| 37 | Several clubs from the Football League sought to tempt Harry away from the Palace , but without success , and he became the first Palace player to be awarded a Benefit by our club — it was the Southern League encounter with Coventry City at the Palace on 12 October 1912. 9,000 fans turned up and the Palace won 3–0 . |
| 38 | Indeed , the captaincy of that side fell to Albert in mid-season after the retirement of Ted Smith and so he became the first Palace skipper to lead our club to a Football League championship . |
| 39 | Three days later he became the first President in American history to resign his office . |
| 40 | He remained a leader of the City ( he became the first lord mayor under the Commonwealth in April 1649 and served again in 1650–1 ) and a firm supporter of Oliver Cromwell and republicanism in the moderate City government in the fifties . |
| 41 | The news came on the day another record-breaker , Harry Taylor , 33 , returned home after he became the first Briton to reach the summit from the Nepalese side without the aid of oxygen . |
| 42 | Emile Faurie , from Gloucestershire , got them underway yesterday when he became the first Briton to reach 1600 marks and today Laura Fry was only 20 points below on Quarryman , while Richard Davison , the last of the team , won 1483 points on Master JCB . |
| 43 | In 1784 he began experimenting with small model balloons , and on 4 October that year he became the first Englishman to fly a hot-air balloon , with a short flight in Oxford . |
| 44 | He returned to racecourse action for his hurdling debut at Kempton a year ago , and progressed to win his next three outings , culminating in a narrow victory from Oh So Risky at Cheltenham , where he became the first novice to win the Champion Hurdle since Doorknocker in 1956 . |
| 45 | ‘ When Vinnie swore the other day in the Blackburn game he became the first player to be sent off for swearing at a fellow professional . |
| 46 | During his 100th appearance , he became the first player at Test level to dismiss 500 opponents ( i.e. wickets and catches combined ) . |
| 47 | In the following two seasons he became the first player to win the Harry Sunderland Award twice for his performances in the Premiership Final victories over Hull and Bradford Northern . |
| 48 | He asked the first policeman he saw the way to London University and was pointed in the direction of the Strand . |
| 49 | and he could n't hack the first year , he failed the first year , and he failed the resits . |
| 50 | Will he make the first team or will be another warmer for the subs bench ? |
| 51 | He got the first laugh of the show , a big one . |
| 52 | Holroyd Smith was indeed keen to demonstrate the relative success of his new traction system : on June 29th he operated the first test runs in Princess Street , using one of the experimental Manchester cars . |
| 53 | He tried the first door , it opened into the kitchen ; the second led to the living-room . |
| 54 | The next night , Captain Edward ( Ted ) Parsons RE and his paddler , Leading Seaman Irvine , prepared to land , Ted Parsons taking a ducking as he tried the first time to board the canoe in a nasty swell . |
| 55 | He built the first wind tunnel in Scotland and obtained his Ph.D . |
| 56 | At his works in London he built the first carriage used on the L & B line and also the carriages for the Eastern Counties , the London and Brighton , the London & South-Eastern , the London South-Western , the Blackwall Railways . |
| 57 | In 1855 he built the first section of the Llanidloes- Newton line , and later extended his operations all over Wales . |
| 58 | Two years ago , he found the first galaxy with a red-shift larger than 1 — that is , with all its radiation more than doubled in wavelengths . |
| 59 | He might even have been standing up as he tasted the first mouthful . |
| 60 | He caught the first Sabena flight to Brussels , using the William Sanders passport at London Airport . |