Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mick Redmond had finished a tour of operations and was on leave when John came on leave so the brothers were able to spend some time together for the first time for years . |
| 2 | At his death he was unknown as a poet ; on 8 December 1975 , the centenary of the wreck of the Deutschland , a plaque to his memory was unveiled in poets ' corner , Westminster Abbey , honouring a Roman Catholic there for the first time since John Dryden [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | You gaze at each other properly for the first time . |
| 4 | I was calling the L-shaped room home for the first time , and thinking of it as such . |
| 5 | THE number of people who have been out of work for more than a year broke through the one million barrier today for the first time in five years . |
| 6 | You get Supplementary Benefit instead for the first six — |
| 7 | Last year also for the first time it was televised by Yorkshire Television . |