Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] for the first " in BNC.

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1 At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time .
2 The charter provides evidence of a surprisingly well-worked-out system to ensure castle-guard of the town : in April , May , June , July and August , it was the count 's responsibility , though he paid only for the first two months directly out of his own treasury ; , the inhabitants of the town produced a tax for the following three .
3 Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears .
4 But England fullback Jon Webb does n't mind eating turf as he skids over for the first of his two tries as part of a record-equalling 22-point haul .
5 More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time .
6 He smiled then for the first time , and the smile lightened his face to a sudden , vivid charm .
7 King Hussein delivered a televised speech to the nation on Nov. 5 in which he spoke publicly for the first time about his recent cancer surgery in the United States [ see p. 39118 ] , announcing that he would have to undergo further tests in the USA .
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