Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun] for [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ali failed to go the route for the first time in his career . |
| 2 | Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe and his wife , Helen , were to see the spectacle for the first time ; they were spending a long weekend with the Ballards , who lived on the moor above the town . |
| 3 | Equally , almost half had come to see the company for the first time . |
| 4 | He remembered her ripping it the day she 'd taken him to see the hens for the first time . |
| 5 | ROBERT Woodside won the final round of the Northern Ireland hillclimb championship at Cairncastle on the Antrim coast yesterday to secure the title for the first time . |
| 6 | This means that initial conditions need to be specified so as to provide the data for the first set of calculations . |
| 7 | It has two merits : it stops detergent from getting stuck in the dispenser and therefore wasted , and it allows a highly concentrated washing solution to engulf the clothes for the first ten minutes of a wash . |
| 8 | More fundamentally , many courts failed to find a basis for the first resort approach . |
| 9 | To train an infant for the first year is comparatively easy , but after that the child begins to resent authority , and the conscientious mother has to be prepared to fight and win all along the line , in matters small and great . |
| 10 | This committee scrutinised the case of each prisoner serving a life sentence in order to set the date for the first review , which might be more than seven years after the date of sentence . |
| 11 | In the other quarter-final , 12th-seeded Czech Helena Sukova held off Katerina Maleeva of Bulgaria 6–4 6–7 6–3 to return to reach the semi-finals for the first time since 1987 . |
| 12 | Witton , like their opponents , are also attempting to reach the final for the first time and today 's clash at Marine 's Rossett Park ground is all-ticket with a crowd limit of 2,500 being set by the police . |
| 13 | WC apps : 2 Mike Smith , the former manager of Wales and Egypt , takes a lot of credit for giving the Egyptians the impetus to reach the finals for the first time . |
| 14 | Republic of Ireland U-21 player Byrne , from Dublin , was the star of the show as Bangor scored their first ever Irish Cup win over Linfield to reach the semis for the first time in 25 years . |
| 15 | But with seven wins from their last eight , the Chargers look set to reach the play-offs for the first time since 1982 — the first to do so after such a poor start . |
| 16 | Truly to celebrate the sacrament for the first time , and to feel for the first time that the hands were the instruments through which God chose to nourish the souls of his people , could be overwhelming with gratitude or with penitence . |
| 17 | All four applicants in that case sought a declaration that the Secretary of State was not entitled to set a date for the first review of his case on the basis of the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 18 | St Albans wait to hear the draw for the first official European Club Indoor Championship at Amiens in March , when their rivals will include Amsterdam , Holywood ‘ 87 ( Ireland ) , MIM ( Scotland ) , Swansea and Rot-Weiss Cologne . |
| 19 | Lancashire , meanwhile , suffered a serious blow to their ambition to win the title for the first time since 1987 when they lost 9–8 to Durham at Seaton Carew . |
| 20 | In the senior ladies/junior men 's section , seeded with the hardest handicap of - 10 , Amanda Langridge and Andrew Oxton ( Hammer/Eagles ) overcame the large score difference at the beginning of most games , and went through the section unbeaten , to win the trophy for the first time . |
| 21 | Europe will be attempting to repeat its last Ryder Cup performance on US soil , a magnificent 15–13 victory at Muirfield Village in 1987 , while the US team will be looking to use its home advantage to win the Cup for the first time since 1983 . |
| 22 | instead the Church preferred to use the Annunciation for the first day of the year , and this led to the adoption of 25 March , nine months before Christmas , although this choice was by no means universal . |
| 23 | The Royal National Institute for Deaf People Roadshow will feature the revolutionary ‘ Typetalk ’ communications system , which allows deaf and hard of hearing people to use the telephone for the first time . |
| 24 | The danger and the extra effort needed to shoe a colt for the first time was recognized by a custom called in some districts of East Anglia by the term First Nail which presumably referred to the violent shock the first nail would give to the colt . |
| 25 | All the same he raised his eyebrows and pretended to consider the possibility for the first time . |
| 26 | Chantal looked uncomfortable , as though forced to consider the matter for the first time . |
| 27 | Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter . |
| 28 | Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter . |
| 29 | Prince Charles argued that they should be brought up initially by Mabel Anderson , his childhood nanny , and then a governess employed to educate the boys for the first few years in the privacy of Kensington Palace . |
| 30 | TONY McLure hit top form in the second round of the Seaton Salver to lift the trophy for the first time . |