Example sentences of "he [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , he made the first of his mistakes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 4 | Flying from a landing ground at Smoogro he made the first ever landing on the deck of a ship at sea on August 2 , 1917 . |
| 5 | Now in his 40s , he made the first solo ascent of Point Young on the Grandes Jorasses in August . |
| 6 | Cody was largely responsible for the engine installation of the airship which flew in 1907 , and he designed and constructed the machine on which he made the first powered aeroplane flight in Great Britain on 16 October 1908 . |
| 7 | He made the first recording of the human electrocardiogram in 1887 , an important advance which , in other hands , had widespread applications in medicine . |
| 8 | Pérez escaped from his residence just before it was surrounded , and went to a private television station from which he made the first of four broadcasts to the nation repudiating the coup . |
| 9 | He made the first goal with a delightful , a dazzling run . |
| 10 | A pronouncement which proved to be news to his own personnel department when he made the first anguished inquiries . |
| 11 | Oh well it er General , he made the first road . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This week he records the first two programmes for his 21st series of TV 's Record Breakers . |
| 14 | In October he passed the first part of the examination for ordination , and afterwards could not understand how he passed . |
| 15 | Simon stayed at home working for the Bar Examination , he passed the first part quite soon just as he had predicted . |
| 16 | In the mid-Sixties , as a prominent if unlikely member of London 's ‘ underground ’ , he produced the first single by the Pink Floyd . |
| 17 | Yet despite his didactic purpose and his concern with detailed narrative , he produced the first work to immortalize a castellan dynasty in France . |
| 18 | As Superintendent in Bolton he produced the first issue of The Deaf Quarterly News as a local news-sheet of four pages . |
| 19 | In 1944 he produced the first fixed-odds football coupon , and set up a separate football company in 1944 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Soon , he became the first man to drive on an Icelandic glacier . |
| 22 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 23 | Several clubs from the Football League sought to tempt Harry away from the Palace , but without success , and he became the first Palace player to be awarded a Benefit by our club — it was the Southern League encounter with Coventry City at the Palace on 12 October 1912. 9,000 fans turned up and the Palace won 3–0 . |
| 24 | Indeed , the captaincy of that side fell to Albert in mid-season after the retirement of Ted Smith and so he became the first Palace skipper to lead our club to a Football League championship . |
| 25 | In 1852 he became the first Moderator of the new Presbytery of Otago Province and in 1869 the first Chancellor of the University of Otago . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A.J. Wilson , the President of the National Deaf Club , and the first deaf person to drive a car back in 1896 , got another ‘ first ’ that was most unwelcome when he became the first deaf driver to fall foul of the road traffic laws and be fined for speeding . |
| 28 | He became the first Portuguese emigrant to be allowed a licence to open a liquor store there . |
| 29 | He became the first Marquess of Exeter in 1801 and he died in 1804 , aged 50 . |
| 30 | He returned to racecourse action for his hurdling debut at Kempton a year ago , and progressed to win his next three outings , culminating in a narrow victory from Oh So Risky at Cheltenham , where he became the first novice to win the Champion Hurdle since Doorknocker in 1956 . |