Example sentences of "who [verb] the first " 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 | The tellers look first at who receives the first preference on each ballot paper and put into each candidate 's box every ballot paper on which he is number one . |
| 4 | Early PC-based software was both expensive and fairly awful ; Studio Software , who produced the first desktop publishing program for the PC recently went to the wall as a direct result of being unable to keep up with the new leaders . |
| 5 | The civil servants who drafted the first version of the Bill , the Green Book , were not united on any issue but the simple one that there needed to be reform at all . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Peter Reid , the Manchester City manager , yesterday tried to take some of the heat out of the aftermath of the derby by defending Pointon , who became the first player to be sent off in this series of fixtures since 1974 . |
| 8 | His relief was tinged with sadness at the defeat of his close colleague and Tory party chairman , Mr Chris Patten , who became the first Cabinet Minister since 1979 to lose his seat . |
| 9 | ( Islip , Long Island in the U.S. , was founded by the son of a Northamptonshire emigrant who became the first mayor of New York City in 1671 . ) |
| 10 | Lyle , who became the first British winner of the title in 1988 , has been concerned throughout 30-year-old Jolande 's pregancy . |
| 11 | Michael Roberts could ride either but sticks to Lyric Fantasy who became the first two-year-old filly to win the Nunthorpe at Yor |
| 12 | Looking on is his Surrey team-mate Alec Stewart , who became the first Englishman to carry his bat at Lord 's Test during the second innings |
| 13 | Sohail the hero : the batting highlight of the match was the brisk 205 from the 25-year-old opener from Lahore , Aamir Sohail , who became the first left-hander to hit a Test double-century for Pakistan |
| 14 | Draper was an English scientist who became the first president of the American Chemical Society . |
| 15 | But the idea — current indeed in Anglican circles until the last century — that Jesus ‘ ordained ’ twelve men ( who became the first ‘ bishops ’ ) , who subsequently laid their hands on the heads of others , and so forth down to the present day , can certainly not be allowed to stand . |
| 16 | The first Formula One World Championship race took place at Silverstone on 13 May 1950 and was won by Italian Giuseppe Farina , who became the first World Champion four months later . |
| 17 | De Maizière was replaced as deputy leader on Sept. 23 by Angela Merkel , the ( East German ) Minister for Women and Youth Affairs in the federal government , who became the first woman in the CDU leadership . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In 1986 who became the first Gloucestershire player since 1966 to play for England ? ( 6 ) 4 . |
| 20 | Consider the case of Abdellatif Sbili who led the first Moroccan nationalist campaign against the French in 1930 : |
| 21 | Thanks to Vo Quy — who led the first team of Vietnamese scientists south of the seventeenth parallel to investigate the environmental damage caused during the US/Vietnam war — almost every student in Vietnam plants one to three trees per year as part of the school curriculum . |
| 22 | The European champions , who host the first leg in 11 days ' time , have lost Ruud Gullit and Marco Van Basten and are struggling for form . |
| 23 | Also attending the service were the Duke of York , Prince Edward , who read the first lesson , the Princess Royal , her new husband Commander Tim Laurence and her children Peter and Zara . |
| 24 | Lenihan , 32 , who made the first of his 52 international appearances against Australia in 1981 , missed all of last season 's Five Nations programme after an operation to repair damage to his neck . |
| 25 | Lenihan , 32 , who made the first of his 52 international appearances against Australia in 1981 , missed all of last season 's Five Nations programme after undergoing an operation to repair damage to his neck . |
| 26 | It was Geoff Yeadon and Oliver Statham who made the first connection in the jigsaw , 12 years ago . |
| 27 | It was Freud who made the first extensive use of hypnosis to probe the depths of the subconscious mind . |
| 28 | It was James Watt who made the first major improvements to the principles worked out by Newcomen . |
| 29 | It was he who made the first approaches … " |
| 30 | 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 . |