Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [vb past] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | No trace of the plage de l'Arsenal , where Camus glimpsed for the first time the beauty of the Mediterranean . |
| 2 | The deputy chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq , Robert Galucci , said in Bahrain on Jan. 14 that Iraq had for the first time admitted " pursuing a production-scale centrifuge enrichment programme rather than simply a research programme " , after UN inspectors confronted Iraqi officials with evidence supplied by Germany showing the involvement of German firms in this programme . |
| 3 | It is perhaps surprising to find that Jacques married for the first time on 31 March 1728 at the age of 55 . |
| 4 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
| 5 | And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married . |
| 6 | It was day three when I started to haemorrhage and Lee cried for the first time since his brief squawk at the moment of birth . |
| 7 | In 1963 Miles and Haynes met for the first time , in Edinburgh . |
| 8 | There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest . |
| 9 | Before Gabriel acted for the first time , she spent hours brushing his hair and fluffing it out with a hazel twig into a frizzy golden cloud , quite indifferent to his squeaks and ouches . |
| 10 | Forced realignments of the ERM have lately become almost tiresomely familiar : they cause nothing like the excitement of last September 's startling breakdown , when Spain devalued for the first time since joining , and Britain and Italy decided , until further notice , to leave the system altogether . |
| 11 | Everton were surviving a Leeds siege thanks to Neville Southall 's brilliance when Ablett erred for the first time . |