Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I informed everyone in local league cricket , including 21 clubs of Asian boys , but only three turned up for the first week . |
| 2 | Erm , all goes well for the first two years , no real problems there , the client is now , had an accident , an illness , sickness or whatever , now needs to claim on the policy . |
| 3 | The watchers all waited tensely for the first word , the first greeting between the two . |
| 4 | Add to this the fact that everything here can cost considerably less than almost anywhere else , and it becomes hard to see why young people go anywhere other than this sophisticated , cosmopolitan , exciting and dynamic resort , which we think is particularly good for those going abroad for the first time . |
| 5 | The research by Yorkshire TV paid off last Sunday when 18 million tuned in for the first episode of A Touch of Frost . |
| 6 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |