Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun prp] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 2 | It was in the spring of 1956 that Elizabeth came to Greece for the first time , on a cruise . |
| 3 | It began in April 1820 , when we came to Haworth for the first time … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He returned to Syria for the first time in July 1992 to attend the funeral of his mother . |
| 7 | They met in Northampton for the first time ever before Saturday 's offical world heavyweight title eliminator . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When Marek went to Poland for the first time , when he was eighteen , a place of pilgrimage had been his father 's grave . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Thus a limited constitution with a representative body , the Duma appeared in Russia for the first time . |
| 13 | On 24 August the Eliots travelled to Edinburgh for the first night and , once again , the reaction of the audience was favourable . |