Example sentences of "[pron] for the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a comfort , you know ’ — she smiled now — ‘ to think that there 's somebody opposite you for the first meal of the day , even if it 's to have a row with . ’ |
| 2 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 3 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 4 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 5 | O over this election , what you 've got ta do is every night , is if you 're interested is watch it for the first quarter of an hour of the news every night . |
| 6 | The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past . |
| 7 | And join us for the first day of the Henley Royal Regatta for a parade of feasting , fashion and rowing . |