Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young people away from home for the first time also have to find the resources within themselves to create a pattern of living . |
| 2 | If you 're away from home for the first time , you may well feel lonely and unhappy — a major contributory factor in student depression and withdrawal from college . |
| 3 | It was brought home to Charles for the first time how much of a strain the last weeks must have been for a girl of her age . |
| 4 | As they passed him , he looked directly at Midnight for the first time and said with genuine feeling : ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 5 | She was conscious only that she was now in Rome for the first time in her life . |
| 6 | Re Julian Clary ‘ pictured here without make-up for the first time ’ ( FACE 25 ) . |
| 7 | Quite different in feel are the sculptures on show until the end of the month at the Beaubourg gallery : two large groups of figures executed by the painter Pierre Klossowski , here on show for the first time , entitled ‘ Roberte aux barres parallèles ’ and ‘ Monsieur de Max et Mademoiselle Glissant ’ , portrayed in the roles of Diana and Actaeon . |
| 8 | There was a heady scent of rosemary and thyme in the air , and she breathed it in , feeling strangely at peace for the first time in as long as she could remember . |
| 9 | He sold Grove Chance , then in foal for the first time , to his neighbour Percy Thomas , but when she died shortly after giving birth to Norton 's Coin he bought back the foal . |
| 10 | But winning the first three of the five-match one-day series has supplied a crucial tonic at a time when TV pictures were being screened back live to Pakistan for the first time . |
| 11 | In fact she lay in the warm , dark grey shadows of her room quite at peace for the first time since she had come to Italy . |
| 12 | Soon red kites , breeding again in Scotland for the first time in 100 years , may be added to their list . |
| 13 | staff would arrive before 2.00pm in time for the first session . |