Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [prep] the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clutch of companies involved in technology from the Soviet space programmes has been given permission for the first time to deal direct with foreigners . |
| 2 | On this occasion some of the Messerschmitts had carried bombs for the first time — not a new role for III/JG 27 , which had operated in this manner over the Balkans during the previous month . |
| 3 | Less publicity shy was Stephen Quinn , publishing director of Vogue , the fashion magazine , who had voted Conservative for the first time in his life . |
| 4 | RUGBY LEAGUE : The Stones Bitter Premiership final at Old Trafford on Sunday , May 17 , is to be made all-ticket for the first time . |
| 5 | Statistics on the death penalty in the USSR have been made public for the first time since 1934 . |
| 6 | STATE school exam results tables will be made public for the first time this week in the biggest Government publishing exercise since ration books . |
| 7 | Even though you 've got funding for the first time for this I do n't want to spend an awful lot on materials . |
| 8 | I HAVE JUST bought Esquire for the first time . |
| 9 | She left shortly , having surprised Dinah for the first time in her life ; and there were to be more surprises . |
| 10 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 11 | The countryside , here called Wessex for the first time , village community life , the joyousness of seasonal festivities , the importance of music — all familiar from Under the Greenwood Tree — are integrated into a more complex story than any Hardy had yet attempted . |
| 12 | In Scotland , where such initiatives have been centrally funded by the Scottish Office , many hospitals have introduced phlebotomists for the first time . |
| 13 | The report added that participants had emphasised the significance of the exchange of military information , which had taken place for the first time in Vienna in mid-April , as " one of the key links in the development of a confidence-building and security system in Europe " . |
| 14 | It was like he had discovered sex for the first time , ’ said a friend . |