Example sentences of "say [prep] the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters .
2 After all , if you had asked him , Boy would probably have said for the first time in his life , yes , thank you I am very happy .
3 De Gaulle said for the first time since their defeat , the French people had reason to hope for liberation .
4 Right , agree with what councillor and councillor have had to say about the first part of this .
5 ‘ We are ready for any onslaught that the white authorities might try to launch against us , ’ Mr Rockman said after the first meeting in his home on Monday of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union .
6 The commission 's chair , Peter Tucker , said at the first session on Nov. 13 that it would consider the issue of single- or multiparty forms of government .
7 Does it not say in the first Sura of the Yasa that the Kha-Khan is above all the servant of his people ? ’
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