Example sentences of "he [verb] the [num ord] person " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a politician and a financier , well-known in his time ; but we remember him today because on the 15th of September 1830 , at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , he became the first person to be run down and killed by a train ( that 's what he became , was turned into ) . |
| 2 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 3 | Today he became the first person to be charged under a new law introduced this month of causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 4 | Mike Moore became Prime Minister of New Zealand on Sept. 4 , after being elected leader of the ruling Labour Party ; he became the third person to hold the post in the space of 13 months . |
| 5 | He lowered his head because he remembered the fourth person all right , but he did n't want to tell Ezzie about it . |