Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] for [art] first " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later .
2 British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual .
3 The old man spoke for the first time .
4 From 1865 , however , the foreign office had for the first time a department concerned entirely with commercial affairs .
5 Even the Ottoman empire began for the first time in its history to acquire some more or less clearly defined boundaries when , after the treaty of Carlowitz of 1699 , joint commissions were set up to demarcate its frontiers with Habsburg territory .
6 ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ .
7 MIA Farrow 's adopted daughter spoke for the first time yesterday of her ‘ wonderful ’ affair with Woody Allen .
8 It is suggestive that during his reign military uniform became for the first time permissible dress at the Habsburg court .
9 America 's four-jet airliner flew for the first time on July 15 , 1954 and immediately revolutionised the world of mass air travel .
10 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 . ’
11 Of these only the last item appeared for the first time in this volume .
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