Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [noun] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later on in the morning , a class of 15 and 16 year olds is painting in oils for the first time . |
| 2 | Again , he was teaching in London for the first time although he had taught before : |
| 3 | A chapel-reared Cornish boy , he was far from home , working in Salisbury , drinking in pubs for the first time in his life , sleeping rough in a wood . |
| 4 | However , others in the industry are concerned about ‘ cowboy ’ companies dabbling in biotechnology for the first time and about the commercial offshoots of universities which are scaling up laboratory experiments — often on shoestring budgets . |
| 5 | A visitor arriving in Zurich for the first time will almost certainly do so with a preconceived idea of a feverishly busy city where austere-faced financiers wearing dark suits hurry past in search of the next billion dollars , where bankers huddle together in back rooms like a secret society , a place resembling a web from the centre of which threads reach out to manipulate the money markets of the world , and everything is subordinate to profit . |
| 6 | Many pistoliers will be fighting in battle for the first time . |
| 7 | The Conservatives , fighting in Ulster for the first time in 70 years , failed to win any seats . |
| 8 | Doug Green suggests that it was too much for a teacher working in London for the first time : |