Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 2 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 3 | This data set , coupled with extensive satellite observations , will give us for the first time a essentially a snapshot view of the behaviour of the ocean . |
| 4 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 5 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 6 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
| 7 | Finn 's Hotel will enable us for the first time to approach the encyclopedic Finnegans Wake with a true and not misleading knowledge of its origins and of the prototypes of its protagonists . |
| 8 | I 'm not complaining about it , but I say I did n't raise it for the first time |
| 9 | Because I have on good information and I 'll say it for the first time on this programme , I intend to give this in my evidence tomorrow , that Rover intend to close not the south works first , but the north works first . |