Example sentences of "[vb past] to [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | He returned to Syria for the first time in July 1992 to attend the funeral of his mother . |
| 6 | When Marek went to Poland for the first time , when he was eighteen , a place of pilgrimage had been his father 's grave . |
| 7 | On 24 August the Eliots travelled to Edinburgh for the first night and , once again , the reaction of the audience was favourable . |