Example sentences of "their [noun] for the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the punchline had been delivered and the ensuing laughter had died away , the blonde swayed away from the bar and looked in their direction for the first time . |
| 2 | In every production there comes an awkward jerky stage when the cast abandon their books for the first time , but for The Hooded Owl it seemed to be going on longer than usual . |
| 3 | The only thing these artists have in common is their gallery of origin the Bachelier-Cardonsky of Kent , Connecticut , USA which has sent their work for the first time ever to Paris where it can be seen at Gianna Sistu for a month . |
| 4 | The welcome 's over … the introductions have been made … today it 's been down to work for Oxford United 's new manager Denis Smith and his assistant Malcolm Crosby … their plan for the first game |
| 5 | The Chinese foreign ministry said yesterday that a resumption of Sino-British dialogue depended on Mr Patten abandoning the proposals , which would allow Hong Kong people to elect a majority of their legislature for the first time in 1995. — Reuter |
| 6 | For many , the thought of leaving their parents for the first time left them subdued . |
| 7 | In fact , there is no further mention of the chapel in the Minute Books of their Meetings for nearly three centuries , and much later they were to claim that they did not know about it until it was brought to their attention for the first time in 1846 . |
| 8 | THE mothers at the centre of the hospital baby swop case talked of their anguish for the first time last night . |
| 9 | To make the country even more civilized the railways were embarking on building great hotels by their stations for the first time . |
| 10 | In the Third World new nations were flexing their muscles for the first time . |
| 11 | ENGLAND 'S Colts emulated their seniors for the first time in three seasons at the Parc de Pugh in Brecon by toppling the Welsh Youth in no uncertain fashion . |
| 12 | On 25th May , while the German army raced ruthlessly across Belgium and the inhabitants of England watched their skies for the first signs of airborne invasion , the scientists in the Oxford Pathology Department performed a crucial experiment . |
| 13 | Indeed , none of the candidates sitting their referral for the first time passed . |
| 14 | PRINCESS Diana 's two young sons are to spend Christmas Day without their mother for the first time in their lives . |
| 15 | Each of the five Wedgwood Rooms had scored the biggest percentage sales increase in their region for the first quarter of 1992 . |