Example sentences of "[adv prt] for the first time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had one fight in 1984 and was knocked down for the first time in his career . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Eventually , on Feb. 23 , a non-Congress ( I ) government was sworn in for the first time in 10 years . |
| 4 | Second-row Jackson was sent off for the first time in his career along with South Wales Police hooker Colin Hillman after the two were caught wrestling off the ball . |
| 5 | In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades . |
| 6 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 7 | At his first school , Stockwell Junior School , David dressed up for the first time in a school nativity play . |
| 8 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 9 | The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis . |
| 10 | Loan star Imre Varadi comes in on the starting line up for the first time in favour of the suspended Nick Cusack . |
| 11 | DUNCAN FERGUSON and Scott Booth will this afternoon get the opportunity to justify Craig Brown 's opinion that they are full internationalists of the future when they team up for the first time in Scotland 's Under-21 side . |
| 12 | The plans for the dump are spelt out for the first time in evidence from the CEGB to the Sizewell inquiry , now in its fourth week . |
| 13 | Rachel flopped exhausted into the long white sofa and wrote a long letter to Jenny , pouring her heart out for the first time in three weeks , telling her everything that had happened since she left . |