Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] for [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifteen horses were competing that year for a first prize in the Derby of £6450 . |
| 2 | Indeed , I have found that students and businessmen who are using this technique for the first time tend to get confused between the two axes . |
| 3 | A board beside it bore a specification of the car and an outline of the services offered by Hazards Limited , who were sponsoring this prize for the first player to ace the hole . |
| 4 | My initial impression , on seeing this guitar for the first time , was that Rockwood have tried very hard to steer away from total Strat clone , whilst keeping all the essential ingredients pretty much to the fore . |
| 5 | They stood then for a moment in mutual silence and surprise , rather as Sophia and Rupert had stood on Ianthe 's doorstep , or like two strange cats meeting each other for the first time . |
| 6 | The movement into private care has been accentuated by tight control of local authority expenditure at a time when numbers of people have been ‘ deinstitutionalised ’ from psychiatric and psycho-geriatric units , and when people from an ageing population have been seeking residential care for the first time . |
| 7 | Marco van Basten , the European Footballer of the Year , gave European champions Milan a timely boost by returning to the squad for training this week for the first time since a cartilage operation on 1 September . |
| 8 | In fact they were clearly entranced by Hannah — which , it has to be said , is par for the course with everyone meeting this lady for the first time . |
| 9 | Her lips parted uncertainly and she tasted the sweet caress of his mouth like a child tasting fizzy sherbet for the first time . |
| 10 | The effect is almost as though one were experiencing full immersion for the first time after years of paddling around in the shallows . |
| 11 | PENNY HASSET * , who showed marked improvement when encountering heavy ground for the first time at Wolverhampton recently , should make the most of similar conditions on her return to the course for today 's Daffodil Handicap ( 5.0 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ That was something I missed terribly when I retired and doing this race for the first time is a way of replacing it . ’ |
| 13 | Listen to his way with Chopin 's instruction la melodia tenuta e legata in the E minor , Op. 25 No. 5 , or the urgency ( rather than mere proficiency ) with which the notorious thirds of Op. 25 No. 6 are propelled , and you may well feel that you are hearing this music for the first time . |
| 14 | And students are , after all , adults , with many entering higher education for the first time in their middle age , or even beyond . |
| 15 | The Martens government succeeded by early 1989 in winning parliamentary approval for the first two stages of a three-stage constitutional reform [ see p. 36774 ] , but by mid-1991 it had been unable to win agreement on the third stage . |
| 16 | I 'm going skiing next month for the first time . |