Example sentences of "he made 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 .
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