Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] the [num ord] british " in BNC.

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1 Oates went with Scott to make the first British depot .
2 During his visit , Mr Kinnock became the first British political leader to meet Gregor Gysi , the new East German Communist Party leader .
3 The people of Ross on Wye claim the first British balloon flight was over the town on February the 22nd 1784 .
4 Livingston became the third British athlete after pole vaulter Jeff Gutteridge and shot-putter Neal Brunning to be banned for failing a drugs test .
5 In 1983 Sheila Keech became the first British woman to receive a WFD medal of honour for services to the deaf .
6 This lack of English settlement in Aquitaine struck the first British student of Anglo-Gascon history as notable .
7 What with one thing and another , it was left to Sir Geoffrey Howe to become the first British Foreign Secretary to visit all the countries of Eastern Europe .
8 He played for Shropshire and Herefordshire boys and was in the same team as Sandy Lyle ; many years later they met in the final of the 1987 Suntory World Matchplay Championship and Woosnam became the first British winner .
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