Example sentences of "for the first time [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid . |
| 2 | For the first time for a long while , Corbett felt wanted and warmed to these simple yet sophisticated men so bound up in their own routine of prayer , work and study that they regarded any visitor as a visible sign of God 's grace . |
| 3 | ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time . |
| 4 | For the first time for a century woman discovered that men wanted something more human from them than a nun-like chastity , a bien pensant idealism . |
| 5 | I 'll stick my neck out , come on , we 're going to say they 're going to do it , for the first time for a long long time . |
| 6 | Harold Wilson 's government introduced the original Redundancy Payments Act 1965 , which gave redundant workers the right for the first time to a statutory severance payment if they satisfied certain qualifying conditions . |
| 7 | The music ranges from the familiar to the unknown — from an early opera played in its entirety for the first time to a unique performance of The Messiah where you can actually join in the singing . |
| 8 | ( Short , happy , slightly humorous speech when the groom is marrying for the first time to a divorced woman . ) |
| 9 | Initially he concentrated on Scotland , where the impact of railways had effectively opened the country for the first time to a large number of visitors . |
| 10 | In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men . |
| 11 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 12 | The formative period from 1850 to 1914 witnessed the birth of a clearly identifiable movement , with labour organising for the first time on a massive scale . |
| 13 | Not for the first time on a trip , the naturalist , writer and traveller Redmond O'Hanlon fantasized about waking between crisp , dry sheets . |
| 14 | People who hear themselves for the first time on a tape-recorder often find it hard to believe that the stranger talking is actually them . |
| 15 | One day , in Times Square , Dustin looked up and saw his face for the first time on a billboard . |
| 16 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 17 | Last week at the Sybase User Conference , Microsoft showed off a prototype 32-bit version of SQL Server designed to exploit NT 's multiprocessing architecture for the first time on a NCR 486 MP machine . |
| 18 | I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May . |
| 19 | The youngster of today who comes to grips for the first time with a personal computer little imagines the wealth of mathematical inventiveness invested in the design of the software and in the electronic circuitry itself . |
| 20 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 21 | They looked at each other for the first time with a long , speculative look , weighing up the possibilities honestly and in much the same terms . |
| 22 | Showing no remorse , Parrott compiled a 75-break ; he took the lead for the first time with a more orthodox run of 83 in the next and then forged 4–2 ahead with a superb 70 clearance to black in frame six after trailing 58–0 . |
| 23 | In this study , the new treatment strategy of ‘ anacidity enhanced antibiotic treatment ’ was compared for the first time with a previously evaluated triple therapy regimen ( H pylori eradication rate : 92% . |
| 24 | American soldiers will serve for the first time under a non-American chief , a Turk . |
| 25 | In 1957 , for the first time during a Presidential visit to the Circuit , the President ( the Reverend S E McCaffrey ) preached at an evening service in Edenderry . |
| 26 | Those adults in a population of 444971 who developed severe acute renal failure ( serum creatinine concentration >500µmol/l ) for the first time during a two year period , with subsequent fall of the serum creatinine concentration below the index value . |
| 27 | She experiences this unbelievable elation for the first time during a discussion of phonetic laws with Professor Jarvis-Andersen . |
| 28 | Eva can still remember the excitement of hearing the " Messiah " for the first time at a concert in Brisbane . |
| 29 | Dozens of children who survived a rare blood disorder have met for the first time at a special party . |
| 30 | ‘ Refreshing , ’ she euphemistically called the British climate she was about to face for the first time as a ‘ star ’ . |