Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | What set Sadler apart from his contemporaries and rivals in Britain and France , was that he was acknowledged as the first to consciously apply science , to aerostation . |
| 2 | I knew then that what I was telling him he was hearing for the first time . |
| 3 | Having only just made peace with his companion of fifteen years , Anjelica Huston , he was struck by the first kiss-and-tell in his entire life , and he was angry . |
| 4 | But he was kept in the first team for too long . |
| 5 | He was appointed to the first Nuffield chair in child health in the University of London in 1946 and held this post at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street . |
| 6 | In 1970 he was appointed as the first honorary consul in Scotland for the republic of Turkey , a post in which his understanding and knowledge of the country was of great help to those in need . |
| 7 | In December 1954 he was ridden for the first time by the reigning champion jockey Dick Francis : after the race Francis told Cazalet that he would like to ride Devon Loch one day in the Grand National … |
| 8 | He was elected to the first Protectorate Parliament in 1654 for King 's Lynn , and again to the second in 1656 , this time on a double return which was rejected . |
| 9 | He was elected to the first Montgomeryshire county council in 1889 . |
| 10 | He was elected at the first count , Ruari Quinn at the fifteenth . |
| 11 | In 1906 he became university lecturer in palaeography , in 1920 he received a Cambridge Litt.D. , in 1925 he served as Sandars reader in bibliography , and in 1927 he was elected as the first full-time Disney professor of archaeology . |
| 12 | Obviously Wordsworth 's performance in his studies at school must have been outstanding for him to have started off at Cambridge with such a lead , and it is hardly surprising that in the college examination in 1787 he was placed in the first class . |
| 13 | He was rewarded with the first Presidency of the BDDA and was reelected for a total period of twenty-eight years . |
| 14 | He was goggling at the First Spiritualists like a medieval alchemist who has just raised the Devil . |
| 15 | Having barely attained his majority he was returned to the first Exclusion Parliament for Radnorshire , and , although knighted by Charles II in 1680 , threw himself with an almost desperate zeal into the cause of Exclusion , with the result that in 1683 he went into voluntary exile in Holland , suspected of complicity in the Rye House plot . |
| 16 | He was eliminated in the first round , coming fourth behind de Gaulle , Mitterrand and Jean Lecanuet . |
| 17 | He was booked in the first half for having a go at Whelan , and did a few other challenges worthy of his bad name . |
| 18 | He was chosen for the first match but had to drop out with food poisoning . |
| 19 | Even while he was working on the first draft of the poem , he was writing to Martin Browne about all the engagements ahead . |