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

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1 I have a couple of mates who are Forest fans , and I got them tickets for the first game of the season .
2 It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said .
3 In the Third World new nations were flexing their muscles for the first time .
4 She noticed his teeth for the first time : small and irregular , like pieces of gravel on a driveway , but sparkling white .
5 Even with such a drastic cut , we estimated our losses for the first year as being in the region of £148,000 .
6 When the Reading Room opened its doors for the first time in the city of St Louis , Missouri , it became the world 's first literary brothel .
7 A new club which aims to give homeless and unemployed people what could be their only good meal of the day has opened its doors for the first time .
8 Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share .
9 Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life .
10 Foxhall Stadium opens its doors for the first time on Sunday ( 2.30 pm ) with the Bangers and new formula stock cars .
11 The Town Cinema opens its doors for the first time in more than thirty years tonight .
12 Most Bangladeshi mothers breastfed their babies for the first few weeks , switching to either combination or bottle feeding after this period .
13 On 25th May , while the German army raced ruthlessly across Belgium and the inhabitants of England watched their skies for the first signs of airborne invasion , the scientists in the Oxford Pathology Department performed a crucial experiment .
14 Meanwhile I saw her breasts for the first time .
15 Her frozen surprise made him pause at the door , a gleam of amusement touching his eyes for the first time .
16 ENGLAND 'S Colts emulated their seniors for the first time in three seasons at the Parc de Pugh in Brecon by toppling the Welsh Youth in no uncertain fashion .
17 In every production there comes an awkward jerky stage when the cast abandon their books for the first time , but for The Hooded Owl it seemed to be going on longer than usual .
18 For many , the thought of leaving their parents for the first time left them subdued .
19 The Irish counterpart to a London rock landmark , will open its doors for the first time in the Temple Bar area of Dublin in early December .
20 The next day we spent the forenoon ashore at Smeerenburg looking at the remains of the old Dutch whaling-station , and setting our feet for the first time on the Spitsbergen tundra .
21 After that I do n't remember very much , except that in our ecstasy the fatal word ‘ love ’ passed our lips for the first time .
22 I washed my billycans for the first time since Reggane , and cleaned the kit and groundsheet with disinfectant .
23 Mock interviews and tape-recording answers will pay handsome dividends at the interview itself when you would otherwise find yourself practising your answers for the first time .
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