Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [verb] for [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | To nine patients out of ten she was the first hospital sister with whom they had been confronted , and the great majority , when they walked , were pushed , or were carried for the first time through the double doors of our main entrance , were very apprehensive and trying to hide the fact . |
2 | Wivenhoe Town have never won the competition and are looking for a first success to complete a meteoric rise to the summit of the Essex non-league football hierarchy . |
3 | ‘ On the 20th July we reached the 26th degree of S. Lat. , and were visited for the first time by the Cape petrel . |
4 | In Trinidad , West Indies were without Richards and were led for the first time by Desmond Haynes . |
5 | It moved northward through France from the Mediterranean coast and was recorded for the first time in Britain at a site in Hampshire , in March 1961 . |