Example sentences of "to become the first [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His total of 275 was 13 under par , four outside the record , and he also failed narrowly to become the first man to score in the 60s in every round . |
| 2 | Pioline 's stunner ended Courier 's quest to become the first man to reach all four Grand Slam finals in one year since the great Rod Laver won them all in 1969 . |
| 3 | But he wants to become the first man to do it all the way across . |
| 4 | The following Christmas she beat Gaye Brief by a neck in a thrilling race at Kempton Park and three months later ( in the meantime winning the Wessel Cable Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown ) took advantage of his absence from the Champion Hurdle line-up to become the first mare to win the race since African Sister in 1939 , though she had to fight hard before scrambling home by three quarters of a length from Cima . |
| 5 | At The Oval , Tiger caught Dave for 6 off the bowling of Woolley , to become the first person to dismiss his namesake in Test cricket on English soil . |
| 6 | NORWEGIAN explorer Erling Kagge , 29 , aiming to become the first person to walk alone to the South Pole , left Oslo yesterday after piling on 18lbs of fat with huge meals to give him energy resources for his two months on the ice trekking 814 miles across the Antarctica . |
| 7 | Harriet 's first big move was to become the first girl to win the British Junior Championships . |
| 8 | Bruin was to become the first Rottweiler to gain the title ‘ Champion ’ in the Working Trials arena . |
| 9 | Chapman had put the Town on a firm footing that would see them to a third championship the following year to become the first club to win the title three years in succession ; and two years after that they were runners-up . |
| 10 | Alistair Campbell ( Wallasey ) is poised to become the first batsman to reach the 500 mark . |
| 11 | Merv Hughes hit an enormous six and Mark Taylor made 164 to become the first player to score 1,000 runs in the course of his first season of Tests , but Australia 's batsmen did not escape the day without damage from an attack weakened by injury to both its opening bowlers . |
| 12 | His next target is to become the first player to reach 2,000 points for the Welsh All Blacks . |
| 13 | Few do it better than Welshman Colin Jackson who was the pre-Games favourite to become the first Briton to win the Gold Medal in the discipline . |
| 14 | Wonderful Wang WORLD champion Wang Junxia fulfilled her ambition to become the first woman to run under 30 minutes for the 10,000 metres when she today slashed an astonishing 42 seconds off the world record . |
| 15 | Patty Sheehan shot a final-round 67 at Woburn to become the first woman to win the US and British Opens in the same year . |
| 16 | She has already walked across Australia and the US , and now plans to walk from Gibraltar to John O'Groats to become the first woman to circumnavigate the world on foot . |
| 17 | Former Olympic 10,000 metres silver medallist Mike McLeod will be aiming to become the first veteran to win tonight 's Golden Wonder Blaydon Race . |