Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] for the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Manager Graeme Souness had Steve Nicol and Rob Jones back in training yesterday , while Jan Molby trained for the first time after his ankle injury . |
| 32 | The general election was held on 18 June , and election and examination fever coincided for the first time since 1945 . |
| 33 | Harry looked for the first time at the cheque where it lay beside him , flattened by the base of the lamp . |
| 34 | DEFIANT Dave Beasant last night spoke for the first time since his week-end goalkeeping torment and insisted : ‘ I still want to play for Chelsea . ’ |
| 35 | It was day three when I started to haemorrhage and Lee cried for the first time since his brief squawk at the moment of birth . |
| 36 | But also by 1967 , expenditure on education had for the first time in history equalled that on defence . |
| 37 | And there the momentum of his pursuit faltered for the first time . |
| 38 | Although the accommodation remained spartan with bunk beds arranged in segregated dormitories , nevertheless , at a cost fixed at 1/ per night plus a shilling for breakfast , extended holidays in the countryside became for the first time a practical possibility for thousands previously denied them . |
| 39 | Before Gabriel acted for the first time , she spent hours brushing his hair and fluffing it out with a hazel twig into a frizzy golden cloud , quite indifferent to his squeaks and ouches . |
| 40 | Well , we really got on well together , and when the bell rang for the first round we went on to the first tee and an official is there to check out which clubs and what type of ball Butch is using . |
| 41 | Liverpool have been without five of the powerful line-up Mr Souness selected for the first match against Portsmouth in the intervening League games . |
| 42 | Theodora spoke for the first time . |
| 43 | The man in the chair spoke for the first time . |
| 44 | It was therefore at the next Congress in August 1959 in Wiesbaden , Germany , that the BDDA participated for the first time as a member country with an official delegation of ten : Dr Eric Greenaway . |
| 45 | Leonard retired for the first time in 1982 with a detached retina which until recent times would have ended his fighting career permanently . |
| 46 | The other Senate seat up for election went for the first time to the PAN , which won 17.7 per cent of the vote and secured 92 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 47 | Now Houghton reached for the first file and took out the piece of card that bore the fingerprints of a possible match . |
| 48 | In one game , against Nottingham Forest , Stephenson was joined by another player who was to take a leading role in Chapman 's future — Grenadier Guardsman Charlie Buchan of Sunderland , whom Chapman met for the first time . |
| 49 | Earlier , the new Conflict Prevention Centre of the CSCE met for the first time in Vienna on July 1-2 , as requested by Austria , and called for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the JNA to barracks , but failed to reach the necessary unanimity on sending a CSCE observer mission . |
| 50 | There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest . |
| 51 | His voice trembled for the first time . |
| 52 | If only — the thought came for the first time — if only she had stayed with Papa ! |
| 53 | On Aug. 16 , as a shipment of UN relief arrived for the first time in the southern port of Kismayo , a local militia which had been hired to protect it stole 600 tonnes of food and fuel . |
| 54 | In a decree issued on July 15 , Shaikh Jabir authorized for the first time in the emirate 's history the borrowing of up to KD10,000 million ( $34,000 million ) on international finance markets to rebuild the country 's economy and pay allied military bills . |
| 55 | Everton were surviving a Leeds siege thanks to Neville Southall 's brilliance when Ablett erred for the first time . |
| 56 | Lithuania 's President Vytautas Landsbergis attended for the first time on June 12 a meeting of the USSR Council of the Federation , comprising the Presidents of the 15 union republics ( previously he had refused to participate on the grounds that he was the head of a foreign state ) . |
| 57 | And now , as he entered Lady Ursula Berowne 's sitting room , Dalgliesh felt for the first time that he was in a private house , that this was a room which the owner had made peculiarly her own . |
| 58 | The old man spoke for the first time . |
| 59 | MIA Farrow 's adopted daughter spoke for the first time yesterday of her ‘ wonderful ’ affair with Woody Allen . |
| 60 | Allen spoke for the first time since he had joined them . |