Example sentences of "make [pers pn] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … commanded his armie to halt , and himselfe went alone to the toppe where , having sighted the Mar del Sur , he knelt down and raising his hands to Heaven , pouring forth mighty praises to God for His great grace in having made him the first man to discover and sight it . |
| 2 | Faldo took his 1992 winnings to a world record £1.5m , while Norman 's only consolation was that the £190,234 runner's-up cheque made him the first player in history to breech the $10 million barrier in career earnings . |
| 3 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 4 | I said to her if she did n't make it the first time , let her lend you my hammer she said do n't you talk like that and do n't you let e Geoff hear you ! |
| 5 | Venables raised £2.5m for a 23pc stake , making him the first man to play for , manage , and part-own a major English soccer club . |
| 6 | Between the last years of the 16C and about 1653 , they rebuilt the Church of St Salvator making it the first church in Prague of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 7 | Burlington , California-based Object Design Inc has put ObjectStore , its object-oriented database system , on SunSoft Inc 's Solaris 2.1 , making it the first object database ported to the system . |
| 8 | Object Design also announced that it has done an implementation of its ObjectStore object-oriented database for the NCR Corp System 3000 , making it the first object database on NCR kit under Unix System V.4 . |
| 9 | This makes them the first chain of salons in the U.K. specialising in both Afro and European hairdressing . |
| 10 | The posting , which places her in command of some 12,000 soldiers across four counties , makes her the first woman brigadier to be appointed to a command role . |
| 11 | So it was that her charisma and undoubted beauty helped to make her the first lady air correspondent in the world . |
| 12 | We do not envisage using the TA to respond immediately to outrages in Northern Ireland or to make it the first wave of our assault for the repossession of Kuwait . |
| 13 | This makes it the first manufacturer to produce a sub-£200 24-pin printer , the company claims . |
| 14 | Hitachi Data Systems claims that its 7490E Cartridge Tape Subsystem , now shipping , makes it the first IBMulator to deliver 36-track , bi-directional tape units with improved control units that provide higher performance and direct Escon channel attachment . |