Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [noun sg] for [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | I attend college for the first time in weeks . |
2 | I think that evening I felt instinct for the first time — what not to do and what to do . |
3 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
4 | She drew breath for the first time in three and a quarter hours . |
5 | From what I could gather , we played crap for the first 20–25 minutes . |
6 | He tried very hard not to cough like he 'd seen people cough in westerns when they tried whisky for the first time , and got away with just clearing his throat rather loudly ( he looked round at the curtains , afraid somebody might have heard ) . |
7 | He became mayor for the first time in October 1261 and was reappointed in October 1262 , years in which the king dominated London , having thrown off the restrictions imposed on him by the Provisions of Oxford in 1258 . |
8 | Nijinsky then went to Longchamp as a hot favourite for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , but there , under a less-than-brilliant ride from Piggott , he tasted defeat for the first time , beaten a head by Sassafras . |
9 | He said he took heroin for the first time when he was on the rebound from a broken relationship . |
10 | It took time for the first cracks to appear . |