Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for [pos pn] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 2 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 3 | He moved on to build up quite a successful sub-post office , yet still people remember him for his first novel ’ |
| 4 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 5 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 6 | The nearest Jaguar agents were in Vienna , where he had taken it for its first service , but the electronic engine management and monitoring systems were so complex that he wanted them checked over by experts . |
| 7 | As a beginner at Level 1 every effort is made to prepare you for your first experience on the board . |