Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] for [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breeze now met the Vicar for the first time , and thought he was one of the most unconventional people she had ever seen . |
| 2 | As Mr Urbanec met the opposition for the first time , it appeared increasingly likely that his predecessor , Mr Milos Jakes , would eventually find himself behind bars . |
| 3 | Having calculated the profit for the first six months discuss whether the profit figure is a useful benchmark for measuring the performance of the business , and also whether it is useful as a guide to future profitability . |
| 4 | Ali failed to go the route for the first time in his career . |
| 5 | When using the machine for the first time , the manufacturers advise that the machine should be filled to capacity and then emptied , before re-filling and stripping . |
| 6 | Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe and his wife , Helen , were to see the spectacle for the first time ; they were spending a long weekend with the Ballards , who lived on the moor above the town . |
| 7 | Equally , almost half had come to see the company for the first time . |
| 8 | Eric Alston 's sprinter led the field for the first Sunday race at Doncaster a merry dance under Lester Piggott for just over five furlongs before fading behind Savoyard . |
| 9 | Turakina behaved as if she was seeing the offworlder for the first time . |
| 10 | He had often imagined seeing the enemy for the first time , but it was strange how very commonplace and yet how exciting this baptism was . |
| 11 | It 's usual to hang ceiling paper parallel with the main window in the room , but if you 're tackling the job for the first time and the room is noticeably shorter in one dimension , you may find it easier to manage shorter lengths and hang it the other way . |
| 12 | These two dimensions provided the basis for the first coherent theories about the connections between the peoples of the world . |
| 13 | The main opposition party , the right-wing Community party ( Atassut ) , lost three seats , leaving it with eight , as some of its support went over to the Centre Party , which entered the legislature for the first time with two seats . |
| 14 | He had forgotten the incident , however , the moment they entered the jungle for the first time , riding on the little saddle ponies which Devraux 's Moi bearers had brought to the road from the hunting camp . |
| 15 | The right-wing Popular Party ( PP ) improved its position and the Alava Union ( UA ) , a new provincial splinter group of PP , entered the parliament for the first time . |
| 16 | The SPÖ won 47.7 per cent of the vote and 52 seats ( 54.9 per cent and 62 seats at the last elections in November 1987 — see p. 35792 ) ; the FPÖ won 22.6 per cent and 23 seats ( 9.7 per cent and eight seats in 1987 ) ; the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) won 18.1 per cent and 18 seats ( 28.4 per cent and 30 seats in 1987 ) ; and the Green Alternatives won over 9 per cent and thus entered the parliament for the first time with seven seats ( having won just under 5 per cent in 1987 ) . |
| 17 | On Nov. 29 the new Prime Minister carried out a large-scale reorganization of the ( now all-male ) Cabinet , retaining Hurd as Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary and appointing Norman Lamont as Chancellor of the Exchequer , while Heseltine became Environment Secretary ( a post which he had held under Thatcher in 1979-83 ) and two ministers entered the Cabinet for the first time : Ian Lang and David Mellor . |
| 18 | ‘ It would be terrific if we could win the title for the first time in 25 years . ’ |
| 19 | ROBERT Woodside won the final round of the Northern Ireland hillclimb championship at Cairncastle on the Antrim coast yesterday to secure the title for the first time . |
| 20 | There are promotions for David Hunt to the employment department , for Gillian Shephard to agriculture and for John Redwood , the Thatcherite and cerebral local-government minister who joins the cabinet for the first time as Welsh secretary . |
| 21 | This ‘ residual charge ’ can be a hazard if you are careless when opening the packaging for the first time . |
| 22 | Climbing the hill for the first time Whiggie Geo dropped back and Bradley decided to try to make the rest of the running . |
| 23 | It paves the way for the first national lottery in the UK since 1826 . |
| 24 | Walter Kent , the American composer of The White Cliffs of Dover , visited the town for the first time yesterday and presented an original of the song manuscript to the district council , which will display it in the £14m ‘ White Cliffs Experience ’ due to open in 1991 . |
| 25 | As an added incentive the Chester-le-Street group of clubs provide a trophy for the first CIU member past the post and this year the clubmen 's shield went to Paul Casey from Osborne Social Club . |
| 26 | Their generosity was appreciated being so willing to give some time explaining to a fellow enthusiast the intricacies of steaming a locomotive for the first time and the difficulties which had been experienced in the rebuilding process . |
| 27 | More fundamentally , many courts failed to find a basis for the first resort approach . |
| 28 | This would be considered a success for a first release from a fairly new act . |
| 29 | . Where we have a client who has a need for the first ten years for it looks like a hundred and ninety thousand pounds worth of life cover , at the end of the ten year period , the need is reduced , maybe the children have left home , so sum assu , assured reduces down to , in this case , it looks like to be about fifty thousand for the rest of the time . |
| 30 | It is one thing to win the support of electors by defeating an enemy for the first time ; it is quite another to expect admiration for slaying the same dragon twice . |