Example sentences of "[adv] for the first [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years .
2 I was in great pain , and suddenly for the first time in my life , I forgot my fear of John Reed .
3 He had one fight in 1984 and was knocked down for the first time in his career .
4 The serious Christian , set down for the first time in a Christian community , is likely to bring with him a very definite idea of what Christian life together should be and try to realize it .
5 He wanted to bask in the developing closeness he and Jordan were enjoying , surfing sensorial highs , and being utterly open , perhaps for the first time in his life .
6 Students are more than likely having to cope , perhaps for the first time in their lives , with a threateningly high level of conspicuous and recurrent failure , and the way they cope with anxiety will play a large part in determining what kind of a fist they make of it .
7 thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them .
8 Eventually , on Feb. 23 , a non-Congress ( I ) government was sworn in for the first time in 10 years .
9 That morning I met my father on the middle landing of the stairs , and we were alone together for the first time in the holidays .
10 Perdita was in such a good mood that she and Daisy actually had supper together for the first time in months .
11 The Swedes , at No. 16 with Dancing Queen are working together for the first time in seven years .
12 He made the effort to say something pleasant to his wife and they drank a glass of wine together for the first time in weeks .
13 Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period .
14 From a wizened dried up body which was buried in the sand some 5000 years ago to the amazing unwrapped mummy of Ramses the Great , one of the most famous Egyptian pharaohs , Mummies and Magic has recreated and brought together for the first time in one exhibition , some of the most important Royal Mummies and funerary treasures .
15 Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives .
16 But he declined to say whether the inspectors — two teams acting together for the first time in Iraq — had found any of the Scud missiles the United Nations thinks Iraq is hiding .
17 Not for the first time in the past few months , Jonadab was disturbed to recognise envy and the seeds of discord in his youngest son .
18 That is how the former SAS officer sums up his most recent adventure : the first crossing of Antarctica , the coldest place on earth , on foot , an expedition which has left him , not for the first time in his life , with severe frostbite.He is a man of extremes : in 1991 he led an international team which discovered the lost city of Ubar , in the hottest desert in the world , in Arabia.He will be talking about the ‘ hot and cold experience , ’ as he puts it , at Snape Maltings on Saturday April 24 .
19 Not for the first time in the last twenty-four hours Kate wondered what on earth had happened to her child .
20 We are then faced , not for the first time in the analysis of societies economically based on capitalist modes of production , with certain significant asymmetries between the social relations of the dominant productive mode and other relations within the general social and cultural order .
21 Indeed , it is not an exaggeration ( or a slur ) to say that the students were sometimes a jump ahead of their tutors , not for the first time in the history of education !
22 Spruce consulted his list , failing to make any sort of connection and asked , not for the first time in the enquiry , ‘ Which Yaxlee would that be ? ’
23 However , and not for the first time in this chronicle , I am wrong .
24 If things get too complicated , he told himself , not for the first time in the last few months , I can always make a run for it .
25 Hodgson was in the witness box yesterday for the first time in the trial — now in its fifth week .
26 ‘ I thought I might have to sell my ticket , ’ added Birch , who returned to action yesterday for the first time in six months .
27 A FRENCH prisoner in Nazi Germany who stayed behind the Iron Curtain after the Second World War for the love of a Ukrainian woman returned home yesterday for the first time in 52 years .
28 You go to the most wonderful places , you STAND in Soweto outside Nelson Mandela 's little house and watch him come home for the first time in 25 years .
29 Second-row Jackson was sent off for the first time in his career along with South Wales Police hooker Colin Hillman after the two were caught wrestling off the ball .
30 In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades .
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