Example sentences of "go to [noun] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the women wept unashamedly , for Tristram was not the only Polruan boy to be going to sea for the first time . |
| 2 | His frankly delighted countenance spurred her on to effort : ‘ I myself , ’ she heard herself saying , ‘ am very much looking forward to going to Japan for the first time . |
| 3 | Brigit , 45 , will be seen in the first commercial this week playing a mum worried about her daughter going to university for the first time . |
| 4 | We no longer wear mourning clothes for a fixed period of time , we do n't refuse to go to parties for the first six months after the death of someone close to us , we do n't take time immediately after the death for intensive grieving . |
| 5 | When Marek went to Poland for the first time , when he was eighteen , a place of pilgrimage had been his father 's grave . |
| 6 | It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality . |
| 7 | It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill . |
| 8 | It was rather like when he had gone to Paris for the first time when he was eighteen . |