Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] first [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Seventy boys and girls from U6 to U14 played rugby — most of them for the first time ever .
2 In April 1989 a " law on individual rights " was approved which for the first time explicitly recognized the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights .
3 The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego .
4 The origins of Cognitive–Behaviour therapy may be traced back to the philosopher Epictetus , who in the first century AD wrote ‘ People are disturbed not so much by events as by the views which they take of them ’ .
5 I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 .
6 Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium .
7 ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’
8 He looked at her for a moment as if seeing her for the first time then paused , giving the question serious thought .
9 She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago .
10 this morning when , where we all watched it for the first time together and as , as Richard said you know , I 'm , I 'm squeamish about going to the dentist , so , and it cos er , it 's basically there 's a scene in the bar where they 're pulling this guy 's tooth out
11 Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent
12 well I suppose their motto is , she had a C D ten on her driving licence , I suppose she should n't of had it in the first place so if she had n't of had it , he would n't of got it !
13 Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on .
14 And then do it on the first time well if he wanted , he do n't have to go .
15 He touched a lump of rotting offal and , scooping it up , throwing it at the first assassin now tripping towards him .
16 Here our itinerary takes us along the new section of the road , rather surprisingly signposted to Fort William , and brings us to the first railway so far seen , at Strathcarron Station .
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