Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [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 Go down go down a level for the first
3 Following Botham Wanderers ' defeat , we now move off the bottom for the first time in four months .
4 The new conductor , Thelma Strange , picking up the baton for the first time , is his former pupil and so is new accompanist Kathryn Clarke .
5 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 .
6 NICK FARR-JONES picked up a ball for the first time in three months and reminded everyone that he is the world 's best scrum-half .
7 This week , each will be hoping to move up a gear for the first of the year 's major championships , even if Augusta do still insist on calling it a tournament .
8 You say that Hatchetfish are not suitable for a beginner , nor should they be sold to someone who is setting up an aquarium for the first time .
9 A POLICEMAN whose hand was sewn back on after a sword attack yesterday picked up an object for the first time .
10 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 .
11 We would completely pin back a side for the first 20 mins , and invariably crack them .
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