Example sentences of "she [vb past] the first woman " in BNC.
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1 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
2 | A Left-winger and a staunch campaigner against nuclear weapons , she became the first woman chairman of the Tribune Group . |
3 | This was given by Mrs Jean Mellonie , Jean Farrow as she was in 1939 when , aged nineteen and at her third attempt , she became the first woman ever to win the race and in record time despite rain and hail . |
4 | ( London ) , gaining a first in mental and moral science and a second in mathematics , while three years later she became the first woman to be awarded a D.Sc . |
5 | BRITISH Airways pilot Barbara Harmer flew into the record books yesterday when she became the first woman to operate a Concorde . |
6 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
7 | Mrs Elliott broke new ground when she became the first woman solicitor in the firm about 15 years ago . |