Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me , too , of the mines , and how some of the young boys were terrified of going down the pit for the first time , but had to go , as there was no other work for them ; and how at first they had been put to work beside their father , loading the coal he cut , until they had overcome their fear . |
| 2 | Following Botham Wanderers ' defeat , we now move off the bottom for the first time in four months . |
| 3 | The new conductor , Thelma Strange , picking up the baton for the first time , is his former pupil and so is new accompanist Kathryn Clarke . |
| 4 | Labour 's positive agenda opens up the prospect for the first time since we joined the Community in 1973 of Britain participating constructively in the European Community . |
| 5 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |