Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [noun] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I met Mr for the first time in the airport lounge at , erm er , er , Kennedy Airport erm , we discussed at great length and had a very interesting discussion erm , er , Pearsons erm , he accepted er , the job and h I , he has no obligation to me whatsoever and he is one of the er , members of the er , remuneration committee , and I actually take offence at what you 're saying . |
| 2 | I think that evening I felt instinct for the first time — what not to do and what to do . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw Siena for the first time in Autumn , ’ said Tom Tedder , with a catch in his voice . |
| 4 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |
| 5 | When I saw Jekub for the first time I thought , OK , this is what he used . ’ |
| 6 | I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May . |
| 7 | This emerges in the form of a dreary Swedish mantra along the lines of ‘ He tried to beat mee , but I beat heem , and so I won Weembledon for the first time . ’ |
| 8 | The Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) won 28 per cent and 26 seats , the right-wing National Conciliation Party ( PCN ) 9 per cent and nine seats and the left-wing Democratic Convergence ( CD ) 12.2 per cent and eight seats , although earlier estimates had suggested that the CD , which took part for the first time in a legislative election , had overtaken the PCN into third place . |
| 9 | This issue figured strongly in the election campaign , and appeared to benefit the Centre Party , which won seats for the first time . |
| 10 | Many hundreds of thousands of trade unionists were among those who became shareholders for the first time . |
| 11 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
| 12 | She drew breath for the first time in three and a quarter hours . |
| 13 | From what I could gather , we played crap for the first 20–25 minutes . |
| 14 | He tried very hard not to cough like he 'd seen people cough in westerns when they tried whisky for the first time , and got away with just clearing his throat rather loudly ( he looked round at the curtains , afraid somebody might have heard ) . |
| 15 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 16 | He became mayor for the first time in October 1261 and was reappointed in October 1262 , years in which the king dominated London , having thrown off the restrictions imposed on him by the Provisions of Oxford in 1258 . |
| 17 | Nijinsky then went to Longchamp as a hot favourite for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , but there , under a less-than-brilliant ride from Piggott , he tasted defeat for the first time , beaten a head by Sassafras . |
| 18 | Goal machine Martin McGaughey , even deadlier than Cowan at his Linfield peak , had a chance to decide for himself when he faced Smith for the first time last week . |
| 19 | Berry dismisses criticism of climbs of this kind , made recently by Reinhiold Messner among others : ‘ It 's all very well for him to say this kind of thing , but when he climbed Everest for the first time without oxygen and on other occasions , he was quite happy to make use of heavyweight-style expeditions . |
| 20 | He said he took heroin for the first time when he was on the rebound from a broken relationship . |
| 21 | It took time for the first cracks to appear . |