Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] for the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Coming back , she saw for the first time that a letter addressed to herself lay on the kitchen table . |
| 62 | When she got home , she felt for the first time in months the need to write a letter , to commit her thoughts and feelings to paper and communicate through the medium of paper and pen with someone . |
| 63 | In the Ladies ' Singles , Jenny Binns is defending the title she won for the first time last year . |
| 64 | She smiled for the first time at him . |
| 65 | She smiled for the first time in hours . |
| 66 | She smiled for the first time , wincing as the pull of facial muscles reminded her she 'd had a crack on the head . |
| 67 | She spoke for the first time since luncheon began : " Darling , your spinach , please . " |
| 68 | The results represented a success for the Moderates and for two parties who exceeded for the first time the statutory 4 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation — the Christian Democrats ( whose only previous representation had been in 1985-88 when one of the Centre party 's seats was allocated to Christian Democrat in an electoral pact ) , and the New Democracy Party . |
| 69 | ’ She searched for the first page of Ararat . |
| 70 | She said she said for the first week you unwind , I thought if we have a weeks holiday that means that the time you unwind you 're back to work again ! |
| 71 | As she left for the first night party , she just had time to tell us what she thought : |
| 72 | Her voice acquired a jeering note , not unfamiliar to Roland , who wondered for the first time what his mother had been like before her disappointment , which in her case was his father and to some extent himself . |
| 73 | In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid . |
| 74 | We met for the first time just two days before departure and accepted a murderous schedule of four games in 10 days , before opening against the New Zealand provincial champions just two days after a 25 hour journey to Dunedin . |
| 75 | Tamed native birds flocked on the poolside boardwalk of their rented hideaway , ‘ Hawksnest ’ , as we met for the first time , and Robin encircled his shyness with a stream-of-consciousness banter , made easier by the antics of a visiting cocker spaniel , which bit the head off a parrot . |
| 76 | This is a combination of the list we used for the first plan and the list used for the draft of the second plan . |
| 77 | A major emphasis was placed on Intercession and listening to God This was invaluable as we prepared for the first section of outreach in Budapest , Hungary . |
| 78 | ‘ We opened for the first time and we 're doing extremely well , ’ said assistant manager Greg Hughes . |
| 79 | Talking of Lester Piggott he of course was the winner of the first ever Channel Four personality of the year trophy which we awarded for the first time last year . |
| 80 | ‘ The night we kissed for the first time . |
| 81 | We talked for the first time about poetry , poets and our own poems : |
| 82 | If we had played for the whole 90 minutes as we did for the first hour we would have beaten Rangers . ’ |
| 83 | ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’ |
| 84 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 85 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 86 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 87 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 88 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 89 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 90 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |