Sentence examples for commissioned first from inspiring English sources

After spending his boyhood on the Kentucky frontier, Taylor enlisted in the army in 1806 and was commissioned first lieutenant in the infantry in 1808.

Presumably desperate to remind everyone of their proud founder-member Victorian credentials, they twirled their waxed moustaches and commissioned first this old-school jumper, and later this fusty antique.

The series of architectural designs that the Whitney had previously commissioned, first from Michael Graves and more recently from Rem Koolhaas, had come to grief in large part because of what was perceived as their lack of respect for the Breuer museum, a brutalist icon that many people used to hate but have come to love.

Friedrich Carl was commissioned first, on 12 December 1903 and Prinz Adalbert followed on 12 January 1904.

Cardinal was commissioned first, after I was invited by the Chicago Loop Alliance to propose a project that addressed State Street from Congress to Wacker Drive.

Although originally only intended as a one-off, "Woodentop" impressed ITV to the extent that a full series was commissioned, first broadcast on 16 October 1984 with one post-watershed episode per week, featuring an hour-long, separate storyline for each episode of the first three seasons.

Bazaine was commissioned second lieutenant in 1833.

He was a newly commissioned second lieutenant in the Marines.

He is Harvard '52 and a newly commissioned second lieutenant in the Marines.

As a newly commissioned second lieutenant, he was five feet six inches tall and weighed a hundred and twenty pounds.

BBC1 has also commissioned fourth series for two of its most popular dramas, Call The Midwife and Death in Paradise.