Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] for the first " in BNC.

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1 With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time .
2 Would it be worth actually having a , having a sort of a planning meeting , say you know for the first half hour of one of these meetings , the next one say that we have , you know , a wall planner , you know , a chart and
3 One night , waiting in her car outside a pub to which she had followed him , she suddenly found herself crying for the first time .
4 Justin says he ran for the first bit and now has a big blister
5 ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’
6 These last few months of building a new identity had enabled him to relax for the first time in years .
7 The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour .
8 Jelka looked about her , letting herself relax for the first time since she had heard of the attack on the Project , drinking in the harmony of the garden .
9 She said she said for the first week you unwind , I thought if we have a weeks holiday that means that the time you unwind you 're back to work again !
10 On finishing it , had she realized for the first time that he meant to kill her ?
11 Had they succeeded for the first time in outstripping the rumours of their coming ?
12 Had they died for the first crime those thirty- ? ? ? ? people would still be alive today .
13 Had they died for the first crime those thirty- ? ? ? ? people would still be alive today .
14 During that sequence Vic made full appearances throughout our promotion season of 1960–61 , thus helping us to progress for the first time in forty years , while a feature of his game in that successful season was the accurate and powerful throw he developed , by which he frequently set up a fast Palace counter-attack .
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