Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHOOTING victim Jason Ward spoke for the first time yesterday about his week-long ordeal after suffering serious gunshot wounds . |
| 2 | LONELY toddler Demelza Young cuddles for the first time the answer to her dreams — her new granny . |
| 3 | On Jan. 27 the Pakistan government announced for the first time its full support for the UN peace plan [ see p. 38194 ] and the conference , and called upon the mujaheddin to follow its lead . |
| 4 | Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences . |
| 5 | The Supreme Court 's July ruling admitted for the first time in 16 years the right of individual states to restrict abortions during the first six months of pregnancy . |
| 6 | Mr Nicholls spoke for the first time . |
| 7 | At Lingfield blinkers fitted for the first time could enable Bob Jones ' Lookingforarainbow to win the Daily Star Challenge Final . |
| 8 | Liverpool have been without five of the powerful line-up Mr Souness selected for the first match against Portsmouth in the intervening League games . |
| 9 | On Aug. 16 , as a shipment of UN relief arrived for the first time in the southern port of Kismayo , a local militia which had been hired to protect it stole 600 tonnes of food and fuel . |
| 10 | Manager Graeme Souness had Steve Nicol and Rob Jones back in training yesterday , while Jan Molby trained for the first time after his ankle injury . |
| 11 | Kawasaki Steel Corp displayed for the first time the Universe FR fault-resilient computer which it sells under a distribution arrangement with Charles River Data Systems , Framingham , Massachusetts . |
| 12 | The United States accepted for the first time the phrase ‘ legitimate rights of the Palestinian people ’ and called for the participation of the ‘ Palestinian people ’ , a major concession to the Soviet Union , in return for Soviet retraction of its previous insistence on the participation of the PLO , the establishment of an independent Palestinian state , and the total withdrawal of Israeli forces to the 1949 Armistice Line . |
| 13 | Betty Rizzo observes that Philip Leapor voted for the first time in the 1749 election for Knight of the Shire , and judges from this that he had used the capital from the subscription to buy his freehold [ Rizzo ] . |
| 14 | The A178 Tees Road closes for the first of three successive Sundays tomorrow , between Greatham Creek and the B1277 Brenda Road . |
| 15 | The UK government has for the first time ruled out the award of oil and gas exploration licences in certain areas on environmental grounds . |
| 16 | Then little Meg Giry spoke for the first time . |
| 17 | Centre Don Caskie returns for the first time in a month after suffering concussion in Gloucester 's defeat at Bath . |
| 18 | The team won the first leg 2-1 and drew the second leg in Belfast on Wednesday night to qualify for the first round of the tournament . |
| 19 | De Gaulle said for the first time since their defeat , the French people had reason to hope for liberation . |
| 20 | In a decree issued on July 15 , Shaikh Jabir authorized for the first time in the emirate 's history the borrowing of up to KD10,000 million ( $34,000 million ) on international finance markets to rebuild the country 's economy and pay allied military bills . |
| 21 | N. lapillus grows for the first three years of its life ( but see p. 307 ) , and then usually marks the onset of sexual maturity by thickening the shell lip and laying down a row of white dentiform tubercles-usually known as " teeth " " -along the inside edge ( Fig. 17 ) . |
| 22 | ANC president Nelson Mandela indicated for the first time on Dec. 29 that the ANC would consider the possibility of guaranteeing white seats in a future parliament along the lines agreed under the 1979 Lancaster House settlement on Zimbabwean independence [ see pp. 30165-75 ] . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's one other thing , Prime Minister , ’ Colonel Carter spoke for the first time . |
| 24 | The availability of sequence data from two mosaic genes of P.wickerhamii mitochondria allows for the first time a comparison of algal intron positions with those from fungi and liverwort . |
| 25 | Lithuania 's President Vytautas Landsbergis attended for the first time on June 12 a meeting of the USSR Council of the Federation , comprising the Presidents of the 15 union republics ( previously he had refused to participate on the grounds that he was the head of a foreign state ) . |
| 26 | Yesterday afternoon the New York markets opened for the first time since Friday night and saw that sterling had weakened about 9 pfennigs since then . |
| 27 | Against the background of a broad spectrum of strikes organized on April 21 , April 27 and June 2 , 1989 , by the socialist General Workers ' Union ( Unión General de Trabajadores — UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( Comisiones Obreras — CCOO ) , the UGT executive decided for the first time on April 25 to give no recommendation to its members to vote for the PSOE in the European Parliament elections in June 1989 , on the grounds that a trade union could not be expected to support a government which pursued economic and social policies which were hostile to workers . |
| 28 | So far as more academic scholarship was concerned , the Nag Hammadi Scrolls appeared for the first time in English translation in 1977 , and within two years had inspired Elaine Pagels ' best-seller The Gnostic Gospels . |
| 29 | It broke Tony Cottee … and the Everton striker reveals for the first time the enormous cost of carrying the tag of Britain 's costliest player . |
| 30 | TAGGART star Mark McManus talked for the first time yesterday about a heartbreak series of family tragedies . |