Example sentences of "[vb past] for the first [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 2 | This is a combination of the list we used for the first plan and the list used for the draft of the second plan . |
| 3 | I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England . |
| 4 | ‘ We opened for the first time and we 're doing extremely well , ’ said assistant manager Greg Hughes . |
| 5 | Now Houghton reached for the first file and took out the piece of card that bore the fingerprints of a possible match . |
| 6 | Justin says he ran for the first bit and now has a big blister |
| 7 | At Hunstead Park from May nineteen eighty nine until May nineteen ninety , both parents stayed for the first week and thereafter supported the plaintiff in taking her back for home visits , every weekend plus a week at Christmas and Easter . |