Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [noun] for the first " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ There was nothing confidential about it : it was a bright idea some Americans had for setting up training courses — that sort of thing — for their businessmen and other people coming over to Britain for the first time . |
2 | One of the boys was Charlie , who 'd bothered to turn up to school for the first time in weeks . |
3 | Thus when they flew up to Balmoral for the first time after his birth , the entire family travelled together , despite the merchants of doom who insisted they should never fly together in the same plane lest it crash and kill both heir and second-in-line to the throne . |
4 | The Kawasakis of Alan Irwin , Ian Simpson and Jim Moodie must also come into the equation , together with the Yamahas of Rymer , Johnny Rea and Alan Patterson , who is making the step up to Superbike for the first time . |
5 | But they always rushed back to London for the first night of every West End show . |
6 | So it was back to Melbourne for the first of the final matches . |
7 | As well as being profitable and actually paying a dividend back to Detroit for the first time in years , Vauxhall is an important part of the GM empire for political reasons . |
8 | The presidential election of 1952 brought the Republicans back to power for the first time in 20 years . |
9 | After that , he flies to Paris for a meeting with the French President , then on to Germany for the first historic conference with the heads of all the NATO , European Community and Warsaw Pact countries . |