Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under a new law , proposed during the fifth session of the eighth National Assembly ( which convened in Hanoi on June 20-30 , 1989 ) , non-CPV members were allowed to stand as candidates for the first time . |
| 2 | Later on in the morning , a class of 15 and 16 year olds is painting in oils for the first time . |
| 3 | Before Christmas many of the shops had to open on Sundays for the first time just to try to make up for the terrible year . |
| 4 | ‘ I just want to get this season over and start from fresh again , ’ added the ring-rusty world No 55 , also forced to play in glasses for the first time . |
| 5 | They are even calling for strikes for the first time in their history . |
| 6 | From him , I heard of leys for the first time , and learned that he had found alignments of tree clumps in the countryside around his home . |
| 7 | More than three-quarters of the requested items which were at binding were serial parts being bound into volumes for the first time . |
| 8 | Its subsidiaries , including interests in financial services , personal pensions , in collaboration with Colonial Mutual , and investment management , contributed to profits for the first time . |
| 9 | This was the classic showman speaking and on this occasion he was directing his remarks directly at those intellectuals whom his films had brought into cinemas for the first time . |
| 10 | We no longer wear mourning clothes for a fixed period of time , we do n't refuse to go to parties for the first six months after the death of someone close to us , we do n't take time immediately after the death for intensive grieving . |
| 11 | A chapel-reared Cornish boy , he was far from home , working in Salisbury , drinking in pubs for the first time in his life , sleeping rough in a wood . |
| 12 | It 's difficult to think about things for the first time in the heat of the moment , so plan it out now . |
| 13 | Okay now at this stage you do n't normally have to ask for volunteers for the first group because it usually sort of role then off they go . |
| 14 | Twenty-six racial equality officers came to the university to enrol in classes for the first ever diploma in race and community relations . |
| 15 | She 'd lived without carpets for the first few weeks and it had been nearly a year before she 'd been able to ditch her old and undersized curtains . |
| 16 | A Squadron had been divided into sections for the first period of their military training . |
| 17 | As we prayed for him it was clear that the Holy Spirit was touching him powerfully , and he began to speak in tongues for the first time . |
| 18 | The youngster of today who comes to grips for the first time with a personal computer little imagines the wealth of mathematical inventiveness invested in the design of the software and in the electronic circuitry itself . |
| 19 | In April 1985 , a Rolex-Jackie Stewart Celebrity Challenge was held at Gleneagles for the first time . |