Example sentences of "he [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He made the first recording of the human electrocardiogram in 1887 , an important advance which , in other hands , had widespread applications in medicine . |
| 3 | Now in his 40s , he made the first solo ascent of Point Young on the Grandes Jorasses in August . |
| 4 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 5 | Oh well it er General , he made the first road . |
| 6 | He made the first goal with a delightful , a dazzling run . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In October he passed the first part of the examination for ordination , and afterwards could not understand how he passed . |
| 9 | Simon stayed at home working for the Bar Examination , he passed the first part quite soon just as he had predicted . |
| 10 | In the mid-Sixties , as a prominent if unlikely member of London 's ‘ underground ’ , he produced the first single by the Pink Floyd . |
| 11 | Yet despite his didactic purpose and his concern with detailed narrative , he produced the first work to immortalize a castellan dynasty in France . |
| 12 | As Superintendent in Bolton he produced the first issue of The Deaf Quarterly News as a local news-sheet of four pages . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Soon , he became the first man to drive on an Icelandic glacier . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He became the first man in history to walk into a restaurant and trip over a ceiling . |
| 21 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 22 | For his day 's exploits , he became the first American in the war to be awarded the Légion d'Honneur . |
| 23 | He became the first Earl of Iveagh , and set up the Guinness and Iveagh Trusts which provided homes for the poor in Dublin and London , and made substantial contributions to Trinity College and Dublin hospitals . |
| 24 | He became the first pilot to aerial bomb Istanbul , and held the record for long distance bombing raids , many of which were in a Handley Page 0/400 . |
| 25 | In 1956 he became the first consultant neurologist to the RVI , establishing a department which achieved an international reputation . |
| 26 | A champion of Catholic educational interests , he served on the senate of the Royal University of Ireland ( 1883–4 ) , the National Education Board ( 1895–1901 ) , and the senate of the National University of Ireland of which , in 1908 , he became the first chancellor . |
| 27 | He became the first editor of the Parents ' Association Newsletter , a valuable complement to the School Magazine . |
| 28 | Ordained deacon in 1875 , he became the first chaplain of Clifton College Mission . |
| 29 | PATRICK Rooney was nine years old when he became the first child to die in Ulster 's violent era . |
| 30 | He was a politician and a financier , well-known in his time ; but we remember him today because on the 15th of September 1830 , at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , he became the first person to be run down and killed by a train ( that 's what he became , was turned into ) . |