Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE QUESTION of just who would even want to be a partner with the US was underlined last night as the American Administration headed for default for the first time in its history . |
| 2 | HOPES of a rapid economic recovery were dealt another blow yesterday when unemployment rose to 2.7m for the first time in almost five years . |
| 3 | In this phase , too , the ideological obsessions , the immorality and criminality of the regime , and — as Germany came under pressure for the first time — the draconian repression of the police state , were becoming more and more evident , and could increasingly be recognized by the ordinary civilian population . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Apple is predicting that it will have at least 70% of Macintosh applications recoded in time for the first batch of volume PowerPCs to hit the streets in 1993 , using AT&T Bell Laboratories spin-off , the Holmdel , New Jersey-based Echo Logic Inc , to do the recompiling . |
| 5 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 6 | It was in the spring of 1956 that Elizabeth came to Greece for the first time , on a cruise . |
| 7 | It began in April 1820 , when we came to Haworth for the first time … |
| 8 | SANTA SPECIALS which are a great source of revenue for many railway societies throughout the British Isles arrived in Dublin for the first time on Sunday , December 6th . |
| 9 | Tambo arrived in time for the first consultative conference of the movement for 31 years , an event which provided an opportunity for the ANC to clarify its policy of negotiation with the government . |
| 10 | Ruth paid in advance for the first night . |
| 11 | From him , I heard of leys for the first time , and learned that he had found alignments of tree clumps in the countryside around his home . |
| 12 | But his attitude was positive as he returned to Obergurgl for the first time in years for our jaunt . |
| 13 | Former President Goukouni Oueddei returned to Chad for the first time in nine years on May 18-19 , meeting with President Idriss Déby and reportedly discussing the proposals for a multiparty system due to be introduced in January 1992 . |
| 14 | I recently returned to Bali for the first time since my Los Angeles house burned down . |
| 15 | He returned to Syria for the first time in July 1992 to attend the funeral of his mother . |
| 16 | They met in Northampton for the first time ever before Saturday 's offical world heavyweight title eliminator . |
| 17 | In July , because of the new Soviet approach , Khruschev , Bulganin , Eisenhower , Eden ( Churchill had now retired ) and France 's Edgar Faure met in Geneva for the first summit of East-West leaders since Potsdam , exactly ten years before . |
| 18 | He jabbered about football for the first five minutes to smother her angry silence . |
| 19 | The cheese presses went into use for the first time in twenty years , Jem attended Bodmin market with butter and lard and eggs to sell once a fortnight , and , with George Langley 's help , a little light trap came , of varnished wood , which Murphy , now beaten out of surprise and disapproval , taught Alexandra to drive with a helpful bay mare between the shafts . |
| 20 | But he fell from grace for the first time in 1985 when he was convicted of drink-driving at Weymouth , Dorset . |
| 21 | ‘ I fell in love for the first time while I was still at school , ’ she has revealed . |
| 22 | Had I read enough French novels at the time , I would have known what to expect ; and of course it was here that I fell in love for the first time . |
| 23 | The base rate rise is also certain to hit sales of new cars , which fell in September for the first time in 18 months , according to new figures released yesterday . |
| 24 | When Marek went to Poland for the first time , when he was eighteen , a place of pilgrimage had been his father 's grave . |
| 25 | It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality . |
| 26 | It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill . |
| 27 | He looked at McAllister for the first time since she had begun to help him , and saw her strained white face , the eyes enormous in it . |
| 28 | Thus a limited constitution with a representative body , the Duma appeared in Russia for the first time . |
| 29 | Next day — possibly anticipating that the fighter defences had been crippled by the attrition of the 22nd. , the Axis appeared in force for the first time in some days as a further convoy reached the island . |
| 30 | Chairman , if I could just er , erm , some words that are n't included in this pa paper , I understand that the Deregulation Bill is published on the eighteenth erm , and presented to Parliament for the first reading , erm , it 's still far from clear what 's going to be said in it , but erm , it 's still widely expected that in fact , on major contentious issues will in fact be the suggestion that sections of Acts of Parliament will , could be revealed by ministerial order rather than go through the parliamentary process again . |