Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the 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 | 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 ! |
| 12 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 13 | And then do it on the first time well if he wanted , he do n't have to go . |
| 14 | He touched a lump of rotting offal and , scooping it up , throwing it at the first assassin now tripping towards him . |
| 15 | 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 . |