Example sentences of "[prep] their [noun sg] for [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chinese foreign ministry said yesterday that a resumption of Sino-British dialogue depended on Mr Patten abandoning the proposals , which would allow Hong Kong people to elect a majority of their legislature for the first time in 1995. — Reuter |
| 2 | THE mothers at the centre of the hospital baby swop case talked of their anguish for the first time last night . |
| 3 | ARSENAL 'S rent-a-crowd will assist the team in their battle for the first Premier League title . |
| 4 | After the punchline had been delivered and the ensuing laughter had died away , the blonde swayed away from the bar and looked in their direction for the first time . |
| 5 | Each of the five Wedgwood Rooms had scored the biggest percentage sales increase in their region for the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 6 | PRINCESS Diana 's two young sons are to spend Christmas Day without their mother for the first time in their lives . |
| 7 | In fact , there is no further mention of the chapel in the Minute Books of their Meetings for nearly three centuries , and much later they were to claim that they did not know about it until it was brought to their attention for the first time in 1846 . |