Example sentences of "he became the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon , he became the first man to drive on an Icelandic glacier . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Running for Darlington , he became the first man to run 100 yards in even time ( 10 seconds dead ) under championship conditions when he took the Amateur Athletics Association ( AAA ) title in 1886 at Stamford Bridge . |
| 4 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |
| 5 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 6 | His career did not end there , for in 1903 , when the light heavyweight division was created , he became the first man to win three world titles when he became the world light heavyweight champion after beating George Gardner in twenty rounds at San Francisco . |
| 7 | He became the first man in history to walk into a restaurant and trip over a ceiling . |
| 8 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 9 | For his day 's exploits , he became the first American in the war to be awarded the Légion d'Honneur . |
| 10 | He became the first Earl of Iveagh , and set up the Guinness and Iveagh Trusts which provided homes for the poor in Dublin and London , and made substantial contributions to Trinity College and Dublin hospitals . |
| 11 | He became the first pilot to aerial bomb Istanbul , and held the record for long distance bombing raids , many of which were in a Handley Page 0/400 . |
| 12 | In 1956 he became the first consultant neurologist to the RVI , establishing a department which achieved an international reputation . |
| 13 | A champion of Catholic educational interests , he served on the senate of the Royal University of Ireland ( 1883–4 ) , the National Education Board ( 1895–1901 ) , and the senate of the National University of Ireland of which , in 1908 , he became the first chancellor . |
| 14 | He became the first editor of the Parents ' Association Newsletter , a valuable complement to the School Magazine . |
| 15 | Ordained deacon in 1875 , he became the first chaplain of Clifton College Mission . |
| 16 | PATRICK Rooney was nine years old when he became the first child to die in Ulster 's violent era . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 19 | Today he became the first person to be charged under a new law introduced this month of causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 20 | After finishing second in the World Championship in 1983 and 1984 , Alain Prost lose the " nearly man " tag in 1985 as he became the first Frenchman to win the title . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He became the first Marquess of Exeter in 1801 and he died in 1804 , aged 50 . |
| 23 | In nineteen sixty five , which was rather after I came here , he moved to the University of Sussex , where he became the first Dean of the new School of Biological Sciences , and that was the beginning of a very distinguished contribution to scientific work in this university . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Three days later he became the first President in American history to resign his office . |
| 27 | He remained a leader of the City ( he became the first lord mayor under the Commonwealth in April 1649 and served again in 1650–1 ) and a firm supporter of Oliver Cromwell and republicanism in the moderate City government in the fifties . |
| 28 | The news came on the day another record-breaker , Harry Taylor , 33 , returned home after he became the first Briton to reach the summit from the Nepalese side without the aid of oxygen . |
| 29 | Emile Faurie , from Gloucestershire , got them underway yesterday when he became the first Briton to reach 1600 marks and today Laura Fry was only 20 points below on Quarryman , while Richard Davison , the last of the team , won 1483 points on Master JCB . |
| 30 | In 1784 he began experimenting with small model balloons , and on 4 October that year he became the first Englishman to fly a hot-air balloon , with a short flight in Oxford . |