Example sentences of "to [noun] for the first time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Former President Goukouni Oueddei returned to Chad for the first time in nine years on May 18-19 , meeting with President Idriss Déby and reportedly discussing the proposals for a multiparty system due to be introduced in January 1992 . |
| 32 | Not to be outdone … the man who created thunderbirds is performing his own one man show … explaining with the help of Lady Penelope 's nine foot long Pink Rolls Royce … and the original puppets who were brought to life for the first time over twenty five years ago . |
| 33 | But what is it like to face Immigration Officers when you come to Britain for the first time , not knowing the language , uncertain about the future ? |
| 34 | ‘ There was nothing confidential about it : it was a bright idea some Americans had for setting up training courses — that sort of thing — for their businessmen and other people coming over to Britain for the first time . |
| 35 | American B-Fifty Two bombers have returned to Britain for the first time since the Gulf War . |
| 36 | Celtic 's defeat of Inter Milan in nineteen sixty seven brought the European cup to Britain for the first time . |
| 37 | Thus when they flew up to Balmoral for the first time after his birth , the entire family travelled together , despite the merchants of doom who insisted they should never fly together in the same plane lest it crash and kill both heir and second-in-line to the throne . |
| 38 | The duke 's London residence was Essex House , the property of his brother-in-law , Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , another of Rose 's employers , who encouraged him to the extent of sending him to France for the first time , probably early in the 1640s . |
| 39 | It was brought home to Charles for the first time how much of a strain the last weeks must have been for a girl of her age . |
| 40 | Parks will be elevated to folk hero status by Cliftonville 's fanatical fans if he delivers the Cup to Solitude for the first time since 1979 . |
| 41 | I remember too being taken to school for the first time . |
| 42 | One of the boys was Charlie , who 'd bothered to turn up to school for the first time in weeks . |
| 43 | It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality . |
| 44 | It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill . |
| 45 | Varese as well as Ives , and an Elliott Carter premiere — not much feminine sensibility there , though it all made for a classic Oliver Knussen pile-up of Americana , topped out with a violin concerto by Marc Neikrug that Pinchas Zukerman had brought to London for the first time . |
| 46 | This is one of three drawings of Lopokova by Picasso , the latter having come to London for the first time to work on designs and sets for Massine 's Le Tricorne , writes Joanna Gibbon . |
| 47 | I remember that , a few years later , when I took Richard to London for the first time , we experienced a very heavy raid . |
| 48 | It was in the spring of 1956 that Elizabeth came to Greece for the first time , on a cruise . |
| 49 | When Marek went to Poland for the first time , when he was eighteen , a place of pilgrimage had been his father 's grave . |
| 50 | Many of the women wept unashamedly , for Tristram was not the only Polruan boy to be going to sea for the first time . |
| 51 | In the meantime diplomatic representatives from a number of countries returned to Cambodia for the first time since the mid-1970s . |
| 52 | The presidential election of 1952 brought the Republicans back to power for the first time in 20 years . |
| 53 | By this means [ the suspended sentence ] we shall substantially avoid sending people to prison for the first time unnecessarily . |
| 54 | In the next few weeks many people will be coming to class for the first time . |
| 55 | It struck her as comical , so soon after the expressions of revulsion and outrage on coming face to face for the first time with sexual deviance . |
| 56 | Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in . |