Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] for [art] first " in BNC.

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1 In December , Stuttgart will host the Davis Cup final , in which the West Germans will defend the trophy they won for the first time by defeating Sweden in Gothenburg , and in the coming three years Frankfurt will stage the ATP Tour World Championship , which will supersede the Nabisco Masters in New York .
2 ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 .
3 London , who retain the side that defeated the Midlands last weekend , are favourites to clinch the title they won for the first time last year .
4 But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher .
5 Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer .
6 By the time they toured for the first time , in 1985 , they seemed silly — nothing dates as fast as an advertisement .
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