Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] 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 | At first , the Assembly could not even decide upon its own agenda : it was only after the first session in 1949 that the Committee of Ministers agreed not to exercise its right to draw up the Assembly 's agenda . |
| 18 | Patrick explained it should be stiff enough in the first place in order to stay up , achieved with the help of a product like the one he 'd just used . |
| 19 | Cologne , 2-0 down from the first leg in Belgrade , won through to the quarter-finals with two goals from Goetz , his equaliser coming seven minutes from time , and a last-minute winner from Ordenewitz . |
| 20 | Bob Champion had been advised by Fred Winter , who had twice ridden the winner of the Grand National , to take a pull halfway to the first fence in order to prevent his mount from rushing at it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Not for the first time in the last twenty-four hours Kate wondered what on earth had happened to her child . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ! |
| 26 | 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 ? ’ |
| 27 | However , and not for the first time in this chronicle , I am wrong . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Already after the first raid in August 1943 , SD agencies in Lower Franconia reported widespread shock and depression among the population , even among the previously ‘ reliable ’ sections who had been convinced of German victory . |
| 30 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |