Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Freitas and Small were extremely economical and there were only nine balls left when the total was passed , but with Richards on song — and becoming the first man to score 5,000 runs in one-day internationals — only four wickets went down . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ben Denley on a Norton Model 18 was the first man to cover 100 miles in an hour |
| 4 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 5 | In that campaign , which he ended with a score of 221 , he also rode the fastest 100 by a jump jockey , smashed Jonjo O'Neill 's record seasonal total of 149 , and not only became the first man to ride 200 winners over jumps , but the first to do so under either code since Sir Gordon Richards did so on the Flat in 1952 . |
| 6 | They have in the first year written 30,000 plans with a total of £900 million sums assured recording £100 million in premium income . |
| 7 | The first Test lasted two days and five hours on a pitch that was very hard , very fast and some way from flat . |
| 8 | To have run the most glorious run of your life , to have become the first European to break ten seconds , to do it in an Olympic final — and then to be falsely accused of drug-taking by an officialdom that was frantically sniffing out Ben Johnsons like a Salem witchfinder ! |
| 9 | By the time Henley was opened Braid had already won the Open Championship four times and went on to win again in 1910 so becoming the first golfer to win five times . |
| 10 | In this programme , the first generation has three items , of magnitudes 1 , 2 and 3 , turning through 180° . |
| 11 | The first category contains sixty-two galleries who show avant-garde art at some commercial risk to themselves who are still allowed to make unrestricted use of the scheme . |
| 12 | The first Board had 12 members . |
| 13 | The first type comprises nine copies of Oedipus ( the editing sub-system ) , and the second type is one copy of the environmental control sub-system ( the operating system , the database , proofing routines and general purpose software ) . |
| 14 | Last year he soloed the Eiger nordwand direct in the amazing time of 26 hours — the first ascent took three months ! |
| 15 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 16 | The first committee had three members from Glenties , two from Ardara , three from Lettermacaward and one from Raphoe . |
| 17 | Gemma Becke was the first girl to win three races in a row . |
| 18 | Anderton struck twice in three minutes in the first half to stun 20,000 fans allowed in for nothing for a game marking Sunderland 's new status as a city . |
| 19 | The route has also changed , for the first walks were from Bradford to York , the winner of the first race taking 7 hours , 7 minutes and 50 seconds to cover the thirty-nine and a half miles . |
| 20 | The first part lists three stages of human evolution from the earliest to the most recent : savagery , barbarism , and civilization . |
| 21 | Le Monde reported on April 26 that the government had decided to reverse previous government policy and for the first time to pay 6,200,000 marks to an Israeli foundation for holocaust survivors . |
| 22 | ‘ They tried everything to unnerve him but he remained so cool , ’ said Mr Kinnear , who took great pride in the fact that Wimbledon , now safe from relegation , are the first side to score three times at Anfield this season . |
| 23 | The First Coalition pursued two lines in the search for peace . |
| 24 | : The first list relates 15,350 types to 5,240 roots . |
| 25 | At Edgbaston , West Indies got off to a good start as the first wicket produced 34 runs in just six overs , but three fell cheaply and it was left to Logie and Hooper to make fifty apiece and give the innings its backbone . |
| 26 | On the first morning came two shocks — I found that Christian names were dropped — from now on I was Maidment . |
| 27 | The first stage took seven hours as the Prospector rattled around the edge of the Swan valley , tackling the gently undulating hill like a roller-coaster . |
| 28 | The French champions became the first club to hit six goals since the semi-final group system was introduced last season . |
| 29 | The lexicon supplied with the first ANLT contained 6,800 morphemes and suffered from omissions . |
| 30 | TNT prize for the first team to reach ten goals in the competition . |