Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 2 | At his first school , Stockwell Junior School , David dressed up for the first time in a school nativity play . |
| 3 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 4 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 5 | Gazza and Maradona square up for the first time for the world 's undisputed No 1 title as Lazio take on Seville in a friendly in Spain . |
| 6 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 7 | It was at this point that Mrs Crumwallis spoke aloud for the first time . |
| 8 | This piece of information caused Makins to slow down for the first time and look at me more carefully . |
| 9 | KEVIN COOMBS Norman Lamont arrives yesterday for the first meeting of the Cabinet since the Budget |
| 10 | At a press conference held on April 30 Lee acknowledged officially for the first time the existence of a CCP-led government in Beijing . |
| 11 | Late in March Mahmoud showed up for the first time since the Yanks had moved out . |
| 12 | STANDING in the doorway of his neat £40,000 home in a secluded cul-de-sac in Brandon , Father John Butler spoke publicly for the first time . |
| 13 | Ho looked round for the first time at the massed ranks of Glories with their headlights blazing , and the two figures , stark in the hard glaring light of those headlights , seated opposite each other at the stone table under the Monument . |
| 14 | A HUMID evening in Boston early last summer ; afternoon rain has cleared , and at Fenway Park the lead-off batter for the visiting Baltimore Orioles steps up for the first pitch from the Red Sox . |
| 15 | Queen Victoria went there for the first , very influential time in 1889 , though even before that the surprisingly large English community in Pau had begun to colonize it , to such an extent that by the 1870s not only did the Church of England have congregations in Biarritz but they were already schismatic and the Archbishop of Canterbury had to travel out on a pastoral visit to try and stifle the factionalism . |
| 16 | But on 69 minutes Apoel went ahead for the first time in the entire tie and it was to prove decisive , Christodoulous Pounas curling his corner into the far corner of the net . |
| 17 | Iwan Tukalo shot over for the first . |
| 18 | It had looked promising for the tourists as openers David Boon and Mark Taylor batted confidently for the first hour to put on 38 . |
| 19 | Susan came downstairs for the first time on Christmas Eve , and was genuinely delighted to see how pretty Breeze had made the sombre old dining-room . |
| 20 | Sheldukher laughed heartily for the first time since his destruction of the Krondel constellation . |
| 21 | Debussy takes over for the first two of five of the Eight Piano Pieces Op. 15 , of Dirk Schäfer ( 1873–1931 ) — surprisingly , in view of the derisory remarks Schäfer made about Debussy quoted in the notes . |
| 22 | Even the best performers sometimes get a tickle in their throats — Jose Carreras warming up for the first night of the Sudeley Summer Festival . |
| 23 | Treleaven strolled out for the first play-off hole , the par-four 10th , and saw off all opposition with a birdie three on the second most difficult hole on the course . |