Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many people do you know who failed their first driving test ? |
| 2 | Lynch , who rode his first winner at Thurles , in Ireland , in 1977 , lists his win in the Vincent O'Brien Gold Cup aboard Nick The Brief as his most important victory to date . |
| 3 | Mlle Adjani , who made her first film , Faustine , at the age of 16 and is best known for The Story of Adele H , is now working on new film projects and promoting Christian Dior . |
| 4 | ‘ I have always been counter-cyclical , ’ says Moran , who made his first millions from aviation insurance in the late 1960s and backed the Boeing 747 when nobody else would . |
| 5 | Lepage 's counterpoint to Cocteau is Miles Davis , who made his first trip out of the United States to Paris in 1949 . |
| 6 | Michael Aspel , who made his first TV appearance in 1957 , hosts The Trouble With The Fifties , an LWT special which revives the decade 's golden moments with vintage clips and an audience of anyone who was anybody at the time . |
| 7 | The crowd chanted for the sacking of Gray , who made his first appearance in several months , and banned all his players from giving press interviews after the game . |
| 8 | We can see who got it first |
| 9 | All women who experienced their first ever episode of symptomatic cholelithiasis ( International Classification of Diseases , 8th revision ( ICD-8 code 574 ) or cholecystitis ( ICD-8 code 575 ) were included in this analysis . |
| 10 | That 's why you meet so many people at parties who are falling over themselves to recommend their accountant , dentist , gardener or solicitor , as if having a good one automatically bestowed a halo of good judgement on the one who found him first . |
| 11 | Given that approximately 500,000 children left school each year , the figure of 42,000 represents about 8% of all school-leavers who found their first full-time job through the juvenile exchange system , though a far greater number registered . |
| 12 | The highest frequency was recorded for women who bore their first child ( nulliparous ) at ages 35–39 ( 14 per cent ) . |
| 13 | But now Hughie , a man who built his first craft at the old Whitehall shipyard in 1950 , believes everything is ebbing away from Whitby . |
| 14 | Do you remember when coming into the flat , do you remember who entered it first ? |
| 15 | The respect in which the Headmaster of our second school is held again contrasts with the contempt and even hatred felt for the man who headed our first — the man who did n't know their names . |
| 16 | In midweek , Northern Rail ( Mick O'Brien , Jimmy Knowles , Tommy Garner ) came back from a 20 deficit to win 3-2 against Hornby Road Sports , who suffered their first setback of the season . |
| 17 | The new head of the hospital trust is an avuncular ex-admiral brimming with ill-justified optimism , who told his first meeting with bewildered staff that ‘ there was a lot in common between the NHS and the Navy ’ . |
| 18 | As a graduate in psychology from Durham University and a man who played his first game as a senior for Consett , the North-East could claim some part in his making . |
| 19 | Cliff , who scored his first chart hit 34 years ago , says he has no regrets about being single . |
| 20 | ‘ My original recreation was riding , ’ said the amiable grandfather , who recalled his first time on a horse at the age of eight a wooden horse at Middletonin-Teesdale show . |
| 21 | ( People in Sri Lanka , for instance , talk of a story about the lion who fathered their first ancestors on the island of Sri Lanka , or Ceylon . ) |
| 22 | Hankin , who celebrated his first win as a Football League manager , said that he was unhappy with his team 's passing , especially in the first half , but he was delighted with their commitment . |
| 23 | That hard work has paid dividends for Washington , who has already scored notable career wins over Connors , Chang , Cherkasov , Wheaton and Lendl , and who claimed his first ever senior title in Memphis in February , a win which moved him from 38 to 23 on the IBM/ATP Computer , his highest ever showing . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't think this is an unreasonably short period of acclimatisation , ’ added Walsh , who climbed his first 8,000-er in the shape of Cho Oyu two years ago . |
| 25 | The direct start to Canol , Joe Brown 's classic E1 on Craig Ddu in the Llanberis Pass , is a hard pitch which used to be graded Severe because Doug Belshaw , who ascended it first , ‘ only led severes ’ . |
| 26 | They were joined by John McCarthy , who spent his first days of freedom at the airbase after five and a half years as a hostage . |
| 27 | Les , who spent his first training session er in Oxford , spoke to Mickey Unotta afterwards . |
| 28 | and one lady was told by someone who kissed her first , first kiss , said to her , she was just a natural |
| 29 | ‘ Golf is improved so much all over the world , ’ says Baker-Finch , the Open champion who followed his first round of 70 with a 69 , ‘ and the Aussies have a lot of potential . ’ |
| 30 | The backroom staff might also include the former City stalwart Paul Power , who finished his First Division career at Everton after being signed by Kendall . |