Example sentences of "he was [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Lamarr Dean stood with his side against the bar so that he was facing the first Apache . |
| 2 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |
| 3 | Here with ZETA he was overseeing the first example of the reverse process — the controlled fusion of light elements and detection of the products , the neutrons . |
| 4 | He remained there until 1903 , when he was appointed the first , and only , director of the newly founded University of London Physiological Laboratory , established in the former Imperial Institute in South Kensington mainly as a result of Waller 's initiative . |
| 5 | When I come back in , things was all up in the air because while he was moving the first position of the dust extractor , there 's a radio there . |
| 6 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 7 | In 1905 he was made the first patriarch templar . |
| 8 | He was a right , right and ultra right Labour party , and he was made the first chairman . |
| 9 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |
| 10 | On the day on which Saad Rashid had received the confirmation of the transaction from Switzerland , he had tidied his desk at the back of the Iraqi Airlines office , taken what few personal possessions he kept there and placed them in his briefcase , locked his door , pocketed his key , and told his assistant manager that he believed he was showing the first symptoms of the ‘ flu that was sweeping London . |
| 11 | He was awarded a first class in part i of the history examination ( 1941 ) . |