Example sentences of "who [vb past] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Pipe enlisted the help of Michael Dickinson , the now US-based trainer who saddled the first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup , in the preparation of Granville Again who hit form on the day it mattered to scoop the £140,000 Smurfit Champion Hurdle . |
| 2 | Martin Pipe enlisted the help of fellow trainer Michael Dickinson , now based in the US but who saddled the first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup , in the preparation of Granville Again , who hit form on the day it mattered to win the £140,000 Smurfit Champion Hurdle . |
| 3 | He was replaced by Willie L. Williams , a former Philadelphia police commissioner , who became the first black to head the LAPD and the first outsider to become chief for over 40 years . |
| 4 | Michael Roberts could ride either but sticks to Lyric Fantasy who became the first two-year-old filly to win the Nunthorpe at Yor |
| 5 | The Barbarians , led by Scotland 's Gavin Hastings , failed to cope with the surface water and were beaten 16–8 by South Korea , who became the first Asian side to reach the semi-finals . |
| 6 | Lyle , who became the first British winner of the title in 1988 , has been concerned throughout 30-year-old Jolande 's pregancy . |
| 7 | Consider the case of Abdellatif Sbili who led the first Moroccan nationalist campaign against the French in 1930 : |
| 8 | It was James Watt who made the first major improvements to the principles worked out by Newcomen . |
| 9 | It was Freud who made the first extensive use of hypnosis to probe the depths of the subconscious mind . |
| 10 | So says Charles Munn , who made the first known sighting of this small parrot in 1985 , at clay-eating cliff in Peru 's Manu National Park . |
| 11 | The business is the brainchild of chief executive officer , David Stamm , a co-founder of Daisy Systems and the Intel Corp veteran who designed the first single-chip 8-bit microprocessor . |
| 12 | BELOW The great 19th-century scientist Friedrich Wohler who prepared the first organic compound derived from inorganic chemicals . |
| 13 | The Italian car industry received its much needed boost in the first race when Messrs Monoia and Morandi beat off 76 other challengers to win in an Italian-made OM , who filled the first three places . |
| 14 | Mr Wilson-Brown , who opened the first computerised perchery barn with piped radio three months ago , said yesterday : ‘ We were concerned when production fell and realised that this was because the hens did not like the endless election news , comment and argument . |
| 15 | His dream of equalling Jack Nicklaus 's record of three individual titles was wrecked by the tall Australian , who birdied the first extra hole from six feet . |
| 16 | So it is that tomorrow , ITV will screen a profile of the man who spent the first eight years of his life in Abyssinia ( now Ethiopia ) and graduated to serious eccentricity via an English prep school ( where he was beaten ) , Eton ( where he learned to box ) and finally Oxford ( where he was a boxing blue and acquired the dramatically-bent nose which for six decades has lent drama to what would in any case have been a distinguished face ) . |
| 17 | This was destined to be of particular importance to the measurement of time , because the blacksmith was the forerunner of those who constructed the first mechanical clock . |
| 18 | The work of psychiatrists such as Maxwell Jones , who established the first therapeutic community , shows that the nurse who is given time to talk with and listen to patients is a most potent healing force for the human spirit . |
| 19 | Barry Took , who wrote the first forty shows of the series with Bernard Merriman , remembers it all with an affection that is certainly not confined to the money it bought him . |
| 20 | During this time he expanded the ironmongery business to include the manufacture of wrought-iron conservatories like those advocated by John Claudius Loudon [ q.v. ] , who invented the first wrought-iron glazing bar in 1816 , which was manufactured and later patented in 1818 by W. and D. Bailey of Holborn . |
| 21 | Marinetti , the organizer of the movement , who launched the first Futurist manifesto in 1909 , had spent much time in France and was in touch with the most advanced French thought . |
| 22 | He was overhauled in the final 100 metres by Alessandro Lambruschini , who placed fourth in the 1988 Olympic steeplechase final , but dipped under 55 secs for the last lap and clocked 3 mins 47.7 secs faster than Neil Horsfield and John Mayock , who ran the first two legs for Britain . |