Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun pl] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session . |
| 2 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 3 | Wordsworth writes as if he is a new kind of human being , like Adam naming the creatures for the first time . |
| 4 | He remembered her ripping it the day she 'd taken him to see the hens for the first time . |
| 5 | Acceptance came when their eldest daughter , Claire , then aged five , expressed her delight at seeing the twins for the first time and said simply : ‘ Oh look Mammy , they 're stuck together . ’ |
| 6 | Launched by the Princess of Wales in 1988 , the hospice entered the Awards for the first time using its 1990 accounts which covered its first operational year with a full complement of staff . |
| 7 | It has two merits : it stops detergent from getting stuck in the dispenser and therefore wasted , and it allows a highly concentrated washing solution to engulf the clothes for the first ten minutes of a wash . |
| 8 | Nissan sponsored the championships for the first time as part of its community relations work . |
| 9 | In the other quarter-final , 12th-seeded Czech Helena Sukova held off Katerina Maleeva of Bulgaria 6–4 6–7 6–3 to return to reach the semi-finals for the first time since 1987 . |
| 10 | WC apps : 2 Mike Smith , the former manager of Wales and Egypt , takes a lot of credit for giving the Egyptians the impetus to reach the finals for the first time . |
| 11 | Republic of Ireland U-21 player Byrne , from Dublin , was the star of the show as Bangor scored their first ever Irish Cup win over Linfield to reach the semis for the first time in 25 years . |
| 12 | But with seven wins from their last eight , the Chargers look set to reach the play-offs for the first time since 1982 — the first to do so after such a poor start . |
| 13 | The Dutchman Jos Lansink , the only rider left with a chance of meeting the conditions for the first Everest Challenge ( which had required him to jump double clear rounds in four specified contests ) , would have collected a Jaguar car if he had won the Grand Prix . |
| 14 | Then , using our equations , we predicted the prices for the first four sales of the year 1991 : Sotheby 's 8 January and 18 February 1991 , Christie 's 9 January and 16 April 1991 . |
| 15 | : Table 3.8 shows the results for the first ten words selected from the relative frequency distribution list . |
| 16 | The icy missiles bombarded the runners for the first two miles , and when the aerial attack subsided Johnson pulled away at the head of the field , and only Steve Webb , of Blaydon Harriers , responded to the quickening pace . |
| 17 | Hilary particularly remembers ‘ … the mesmeric Senta , whose teaching was so brilliant that Rata Quick and I both achieved the splits for the first and last time in our lives , with no untoward effects ! ’ . |
| 18 | Their hard-nosed ‘ method ’ rugby and its ultimate reward when they blitzed the Springboks for the first two-thirds of the test at Ellis Park to build an unassailable 20–3 lead . |
| 19 | Prince Charles argued that they should be brought up initially by Mabel Anderson , his childhood nanny , and then a governess employed to educate the boys for the first few years in the privacy of Kensington Palace . |
| 20 | Accountancy Television has announced the rates for the first annual subscriptions . |
| 21 | And then world-class backs Martin Offiah , captain Dean Bell and Martin Offiah will surely end the Cumbrians ' run of nine victories and destroy their hopes of reaching the semi-finals for the first time in the club 's history . |
| 22 | Two colonels and three US advisers , one of them military , attended the talks for the first time . |
| 23 | The Kurdish delegation was led by Masoud Barzani , leader of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan ( DPK ) , who attended the talks for the first time . |
| 24 | Captain Awud then presented the candidates for the first committee — as it happened , the development committee . |
| 25 | The company has just released the Interim Report showing the results for the first half of the current financial year . |
| 26 | So obviously we are looking to get the points for the first time . |
| 27 | I held my breath as the announcer introduced the players for the first match . |
| 28 | Three seminars were recently held for general SVQ co-ordinators from schools , colleges , and other centres offering the awards for the first time in August 1993 . |