Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it was with the help of Phil Andrews , who was No.1 on Venturous at that time , with Bob Wellock , an ex air/sea RAF coxswain from Liverpool Customs in command whom I was meeting for the first time . |
| 2 | I was abused for the first time at three years old . |
| 3 | ‘ I was asked for the first time last week what I 'd do if we got into the Premier League . |
| 4 | In a way I was happy : I had achieved something , I was winning for the first time in my life , and I had a strong sense of myself as a differentiated individual . |
| 5 | The wisdom of the Northern Ireland Branch of introducing a Grade 4B a few years ago , is paying off now , when this grade attracted an entry of 21 bands , some of which were playing for the first time . |
| 6 | The 1,000-strong Congress , which was meeting for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union , is the only body in the country that can change the constitution and other basic laws . |
| 7 | driving even further than spain is the Oxfordshire team of Francis Tuthill and Anthony Showell … the winners of the London to Sydney car marathon … are the first to enter the London to Mexico marathon which was unveiled for the first time this week … |
| 8 | Such a requirement for express agreement of admissions policy is difficult to reconcile with the more limited requirement that governors should simply ‘ consult ’ the local education authority which was introduced for the first time by section 33 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 9 | Paul Stern , the vice-president of the Vienna Bridge Club , soon invited her to join the Austrian Ladies ' Team , which was preparing for the first European Women 's Teams Championship to be held in Brussels in 1935 . |
| 10 | I well remember the first one to be accepted , ‘ ’ Firmly I believe and truly ’ , which was sung for the first time at the dedication of Holy Cross College . |
| 11 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 12 | It was n't only the bride , but the bride 's family she was to meet for the first time . |
| 13 | We were in Verbier in March 1990 with our two sons aged 9 and 11 , both good skiers , and a daughter of 4 who was skiing for the first time . |
| 14 | SILLARS STALKER * , who was winning for the first time on the Flat when landing an apprentice handicap at Hamilton Park eight days ago , should make a successful return to the Scottish track in today 's Levy Board Handicap ( 5.15 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ My name 's Stirling , ’ he said , almost as though we were meeting for the first time outside his Club in London . |
| 16 | It was attended for the first time by observers from China and France , neither of which was a signatory of the treaty . |
| 17 | When a dispute arose under the contract , it was discovered for the first time that the copy returned by B had a number of terms printed on the back , in German , including a clause conferring jurisdiction in relation to disputes under the contract on the German courts . |
| 18 | It was certified for the first time in 1986 . |
| 19 | Moreover it was becoming for the first time , as a result of Peter 's administrative reforms , an institution concerned solely with diplomacy . |
| 20 | I knew then that what I was telling him he was hearing for the first time . |
| 21 | 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 … |
| 22 | He was chosen for the first match but had to drop out with food poisoning . |
| 23 | When the National Insurance Act was introduced in 1911 it also provided sickness benefits of 10s. per week for men , 7s. 6d. for women ( because their loss of earnings during sickness was lower than that of men ) for the first thirteen weeks of sickness , although nothing was paid for the first three days , the aim being to help long-rather than trivial short-term sickness ; 5s. per week was paid to men and women for the following thirteen weeks . |