Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay . |
| 2 | In December , Stuttgart will host the Davis Cup final , in which the West Germans will defend the trophy they won for the first time by defeating Sweden in Gothenburg , and in the coming three years Frankfurt will stage the ATP Tour World Championship , which will supersede the Nabisco Masters in New York . |
| 3 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 4 | In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius . |
| 5 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 6 | At this point I saw for the first time , a really good reason for my being in Thailand as PCV . |
| 7 | As he hung about the Red Anchor he noticed for the first time that its character was changing . |
| 8 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 9 | In the Ladies ' Singles , Jenny Binns is defending the title she won for the first time last year . |
| 10 | ‘ The night we kissed for the first time . |
| 11 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 12 | London , who retain the side that defeated the Midlands last weekend , are favourites to clinch the title they won for the first time last year . |
| 13 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 14 | In this paper we report for the first time the isolation of cDNA for a zebrafish POU family gene which is ubiquitously expressed during embryogenesis . |
| 15 | ‘ Whenever the far end of an active edge A and the near end of an inactive edge I meet for the first time , if I satisfies A 's conditions for extension , then build a new edge as follows : |
| 16 | Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river . |
| 17 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 18 | For instance , we are well-used to integrating vocational assessments in care , but for the general SVQ we have for the first time found it necessary to set up meetings with colleagues delivering modules in numeracy , information technology and budget financing . |
| 19 | This is a combination of the list we used for the first plan and the list used for the draft of the second plan . |
| 20 | Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer . |
| 21 | When she heard the voice of Sam 's mother she realized for the first time that it was more than likely that her own mother would , during the course of the evening , make some reference to the dinner-party which , she had been led to believe , was taking place in Pam 's house . |
| 22 | By the time they toured for the first time , in 1985 , they seemed silly — nothing dates as fast as an advertisement . |