Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 2 | The draw 's been made today for the first round of the FA Cup … and here 's |
| 3 | A NEW blood vessel ‘ drill ’ which can relieve blocked arteries supplying the heart has been used successfully for the first time by surgeons in Britain . |
| 4 | In Western Europe the idea of attack by columns in close formation seems to have been put forward for the first time by the Chevalier de Folard in his Nouvelles Découvertes sur la Guerre ( 1724 ) . |
| 5 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |