Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In conclusion , I 'd like to warn Ben that the Plage route at Buoux is n't his project , but one which was undertaken and tried for the first time by Le Menestrel , and that he has no particular rights over it . |
| 2 | The CAT scanner which the hospital wants for its X ray department will cost £600,000 to buy and run for the first few years . |
| 3 | Then , when we actually visit that place for the first time , a subconscious memory is triggered and we are convinced that we knew instinctively what it would look like . |
| 4 | Carolina , a sixteen-year-old whose mother is learning to read and write for the first time , is a voluntary helper with the grandmothers ' group . |
| 5 | He was arrested and tried for the first time in April 1916 . |
| 6 | Sam , without any hesitation had agreed knowing that to wait for the first available fireman would delay his train 's departure . |
| 7 | So she went on watching and noticed for the first time that Mrs Files had lovely hands , long-fingered , fine-textured , graceful in their mundane task . |
| 8 | If anything it is the managers in family health services authorities and the NHS who have failed to anticipate and plan for the first three of these contingencies that has caused the current workload crisis . |
| 9 | In discussing the interactions of mental illnesses and brain failure Gray and Isaacs ( 1979 ) showed that illnesses such as depression , psychosis and neurosis do continue to occur in old age but are more likely to recur than appear for the first time . |
| 10 | In September Lafayette took pride of place on the Stoddard Templeton stand at the Harrogate exhibition , the main retail carpet exhibition of the year , where it was officially launched and shown for the first time . |