Example sentences of "they [vb past] for the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid . |
| 2 | ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 4 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 5 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 6 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 7 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 8 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 9 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
| 10 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
| 11 | they posed for the first photographs |
| 12 | They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back . |
| 13 | His mind recalled the familiar ambience of his trade ; men moving like black shadows behind the glare of the arc-lights the police cars tidily parked ; the flap of the screens , desultory voices conferring as they watched for the first lights of his approaching car . |
| 14 | They saw for the first time what was to become a regular and tragic sequence of events : a dramatic response to the first treatment , a lesser one to a second , and in the end delayed death from a condition which had become as resistant to drugs as it was to radiation therapy . |
| 15 | The minutes dragged while they listened for the first hum of the approaching helicopter . |
| 16 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
| 17 | By the time they toured for the first time , in 1985 , they seemed silly — nothing dates as fast as an advertisement . |
| 18 | In December , Stuttgart will host the Davis Cup final , in which the West Germans will defend the trophy they won for the first time by defeating Sweden in Gothenburg , and in the coming three years Frankfurt will stage the ATP Tour World Championship , which will supersede the Nabisco Masters in New York . |
| 19 | London , who retain the side that defeated the Midlands last weekend , are favourites to clinch the title they won for the first time last year . |
| 20 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 21 | After a short discussion on the merits of the duck , he decided to join her ; and while they waited for the first course to arrive , he regaled her with a colourful account of that afternoon 's meeting in the history department to sort out the timetable . |
| 22 | The healthy stayed away , or hovered sceptically at the back of the crowd , talking as they waited for the first miracle . |
| 23 | They waited for the first flight out of Iraq on which there were seats . |