Example sentences of "meet [prep] [noun] for the first " in BNC.

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1 In 1947 the Methodist Conference met in Portadown for the first time .
2 The board meets on Thursday for the first time since the row began and Mr Hussey , Mr Birt and Lord Barnett will be asked to explain the situation .
3 Mr Major , about to return to Number 10 after his Portuguese holiday , was urged to take a firm grip over Cabinet trouble-makers , when it meets on Thursday for the first time since July .
4 They met in Northampton for the first time ever before Saturday 's offical world heavyweight title eliminator .
5 In July , because of the new Soviet approach , Khruschev , Bulganin , Eisenhower , Eden ( Churchill had now retired ) and France 's Edgar Faure met in Geneva for the first summit of East-West leaders since Potsdam , exactly ten years before .
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