Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [noun] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we experience Act I , Scene i , of King Lear for the first time , it may not be easy to see that Cordelia is right , the others wrong . |
| 2 | By the time they had reached the end of Jefferson Street for the first time , the US Grand Prix was all over . |
| 3 | The first part of the walk kicks off up a private road gliding beneath a fabulous railway viaduct , the very one from which I had gazed in my bike-less train down the length of Loch Shiel for the first time some ten years earlier . |
| 4 | Dorset missed the services of Lee Sabin for the first two rounds . |
| 5 | Mr Corlett , aged 49 , who heads a nine-strong staff , said his selling success was due to Balkan Holidays offering flights out of Teesside Airport for the first time . |
| 6 | With a touch of paint , the ex-lifeboat The Guy and Clare Hunter — it was named after two of its most generous benefactors — took to the high seas of Belfast Lough for the first time this summer . |
| 7 | The results for Drouot salerooms for the first six months of 1992 proved to be almost ten per cent down on those of 1991 , a clear case of bad to worse which the Paris auctioneers said showed the art market had ‘ stabilised ’ . |
| 8 | After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn . |
| 9 | Since Hick 's elevation to the Test team we 've seen England share the most successful series against West Indies in the last nine , win a series against New Zealand for the first time in four attempts , win a Test match against Pakistan for the first time in 10 years , and , for good measure , reach the World Cup final . |
| 10 | We played with Gary player for the first two rounds and he was as miserable as sin about our luck with the weather because we caught it again for the second round . |
| 11 | It is a round trip and will see a ‘ West Country ’ class locomotive steam into Waterloo Station for the first time since Sunday July 9 1967 . |
| 12 | Stephanie and I had married eight years ago , only four weeks after meeting in Los Angeles for the first time . |
| 13 | In November Gorbachev for the first time conceded that Moscow stood not only for a ‘ non-aligned , independent , sovereign Afghanistan ’ but a ‘ neutral Afghanistan ’ . |
| 14 | The latter phrase , used in the 1991 act setting up the agency , enshrines the word " sustainable " in UK legislation for the first time . |
| 15 | But he has never been fitter and , with sponsorship from Lunn Poly for the first time , is giving his best shot at winning for Britain . |
| 16 | On May Day 1983 , a number of trade union federations held congresses openly in San Salvador for the first time since 1980 . |
| 17 | Of 35 teams in New Zealand for the first Raid , all but five were French . |
| 18 | Two rare kakapo chicks have been hatched in captivity in New Zealand for the first time . |
| 19 | THE St Petersburg National Opera ( the ‘ National ’ ) , Chaliapin 's company , is in New York for the first time . |
| 20 | The Kitchens are in New York for the first time , because last August , A&M America heard their just-completed second album and bought it on the spot . |
| 21 | Wilkinson conceded that odds against the title going to Elland Road for the first time in 18 years have ‘ lengthened considerably ’ but he refused to throw in the towel . |
| 22 | Mr Alfred Nzo , general secretary of the ANC , said yesterday that he spoke to Mr Mandela for the first time in 26 years . |
| 23 | ‘ Must be proud of Hank and Boyd , ’ said the reporter pausing on his way to the front door to speak to Mrs Stych for the first time . |
| 24 | CLIVE ALLEN scored twice , but Trevor Morley was sent off as European football last night returned to Upton Park for the first time in 11 years . |
| 25 | It was after one of those shows that I introduced Mick Jones to Joe Strummer for the first time . |
| 26 | Lisburn , with a 13-point cushion , go to Strangford Road at the top of their form and if they can come away with a maximum haul of 22 points , will be very comfortably placed at home to North the following week , with the prospect of the trophy making its way back to Wallace Park for the first time since 1980 . |
| 27 | and she poddled over , she said she 'd been across to Fernbury Lodge for the first time |
| 28 | This course is based on Scotvec modules for the first year . |
| 29 | system which will be used to introduce Package Dyeing to Douglas Reyburn for the first time . |
| 30 | In March 1992 I returned to New Zealand for the first time in over a dozen years , to sample again what light aviation there has to offer visitors . |