Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [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 | After all , she was returning to competition for the first time in five years . |
| 3 | I was living on adrenaline for the first couple of weeks . |
| 4 | All the signs are that it will be a holding speech , waiting until December for the first of the combined spending and taxing Budgets , with , maybe , some radical tax reforms thrown in . |
| 5 | Many of the women wept unashamedly , for Tristram was not the only Polruan boy to be going to sea for the first time . |
| 6 | His frankly delighted countenance spurred her on to effort : ‘ I myself , ’ she heard herself saying , ‘ am very much looking forward to going to Japan for the first time . |
| 7 | Brigit , 45 , will be seen in the first commercial this week playing a mum worried about her daughter going to university for the first time . |
| 8 | They are even calling for strikes for the first time in their history . |
| 9 | The plight of Ian X , a 23-year-old Ayrshire man who has a mental age of six , surfaced when he appeared in court after getting into trouble for the first time with the police , and was sent to Barlinnie in the absence of any hospital or social work establishment willing to take him into care . |
| 10 | Again , he was teaching in London for the first time although he had taught before : |
| 11 | Which was amazing as we started working together far too late , there was a shoestring budget , dancers speaking on stage for the first time . |
| 12 | Charges at long stay car parks Nun 's Close and Yorke Square , both in Richmond , rear of Leyburn Market Place , Gayle Lane , Hawes , and Muker car park in Swaledale will have a maximum waiting time of ten hours with a scale of charges running from 40p for the first two hours and thereafter 20p per hour up to a maximum of £1 per day . |
| 13 | We all walk a certain amount every day of our lives , even if we are sedentary , and that is easier than starting from scratch for the first time jogging or cycling . |
| 14 | In the next few weeks many people will be coming to class for the first time . |
| 15 | There is an old-fashioned quality to these performances which leaves me wishing for something just a little less well-upholstered , although I can imagine anyone coming to Bach for the first time with this recording could well come away with the impression that old LEAVES is quite simply the ‘ bizz ’ , and I for one would not wish to argue with that ! |
| 16 | To those leaving we say thank you for your efforts during an especially difficult past two years and to those coming on board for the first time we wish you every success in the future . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Many pistoliers will be fighting in battle for the first time . |
| 21 | The Conservatives , fighting in Ulster for the first time in 70 years , failed to win any seats . |
| 22 | Rosalind Plowright , singing at ENO for the first time in eight years , is an Elisabeth de Valois of aptly regal appearance , though her initially expressive line showed increasing signs of strain . |
| 23 | Doug Green suggests that it was too much for a teacher working in London for the first time : |