Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] for the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are sure to be stiff after riding for the first time . ’ |
| 2 | Butcher , whose career looked over last season because of a knee injury , will be offered a one-year contract this week after starring for the First Division club in three pre-season friendlies . |
| 3 | They act out their role in a number of scenarios with an actor , such as meeting for the first time , attracting the man 's attention , and putting him off the trail . |
| 4 | Reading Neale 's articles in the immediate context of teaching for the first time a course dangerously titled , ‘ Television Theory ’ ( is there such a thing ? ) , |
| 5 | She could recall the excitement of spending for the first time money she had actually earned . |
| 6 | He might have insisted , ‘ You can never recreate the feeling of winning for the first time , ’ but his palms were sweating with anticipation as the tapes went up . |
| 7 | Blackwell Retail , which used to produce its own catalogue , broke with tradition this year and took Books for Giving for the first time . |
| 8 | The action of Louis XIV in sending for the first time , in 1679 , an envoy extraordinary to the imperial court in Vienna probably helped to accelerate this process . |
| 9 | The choice of language affects selection , integration and choice of curriculum content throughout the primary cycle , and is of dominant importance in planning for the first school years . |
| 10 | But , Alfa Romeo returned to racing for the first World Championship in 1950 , he was invited to join their team and he finished second in the inaugural championship , having won the Monaco , Belgian and French Grands Prix . |
| 11 | It often takes ages for a pair to get down to spawning for the first time and if you were to separate them now it would be extremely difficult to get them back together again . |
| 12 | As a young Christian exclaimed to me on realizing for the first time the titanic implications of this claim , ‘ I always knew Christianity was true , but I never realized it was this true ! ’ |
| 13 | Lawrence E. Walsh , the special prosecutor in charge of the Iran-contra investigation , responded to the move by suggesting for the first time that Bush was a " subject " of his inquiry . |
| 14 | In a news conference on Nov. 9 , however , the Philippine spokesman Rafael M. Alunan appeared to indicate a softening of the government 's stance by differentiating for the first time between " sovereign control " and " operational control " , noting that Philippine personnel would not be fully ready to take over the bases by 1991 and that US personnel would be needed to operate them under Philippine sovereignty for a transitional period . |
| 15 | Having raised the hopes of friend and foe alike — and especially of Iraqis , witness the ecstatic scenes in Baghdad last week — by agreeing for the first time to contemplate withdrawal from Kuwait , he was unwilling to commit himself unequivocally . |