Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] the first " in BNC.

  Previous page   Next page
No Sentence
31 Nora Fanshawe raised her head and for the first time he saw her smile , an ugly harsh smile of self-mockery .
32 Mountbatten saw Charles for what he was and liked what he saw , and for the first time the growing Prince was given some real sense of his own worth .
33 Mrs Chamorro declined to give interviews while in Washington but in an article published this week , she wrote : ‘ Ten years of living dangerously has brought civil war , an exodus of a fifth of our countrymen , an annual inflation of 30,000 per cent , 40 per cent unemployment and for the first time in our history , mass hunger .
34 Bought by collectors — and for the first time whilst , as it were , still wet — by museums .
35 He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist .
36 She stands close to the bed , and for the first time I see her naked : Agnes , the heroine of my novel .
37 It was made easier for companies to set up their own schemes and for the first time everyone would be given the right of a personal pension of their own .
38 Now , while as if bestowing some order of merit she fastened the beads round my neck , her face wore a motherly expression and for the first time I was with the Aunt Louise of my childhood .
39 Of those , the Trooper 's got the edge and for the first time leads its own sub-section of 4 × 4 off-roaders .
40 This was the initial running of the world 's oldest Classic under commercial sponsorship , and for the first time the winner 's prize money topped £100,000 .
41 It reminded her painfully of Jordan and for the first time she thought about how she was never going to touch him again .
42 Moreover , foreign policy dictated caution ; with France and Scotland in alliance , she could not immediately break with Spain , and for the first four months of her reign the watching world was asked to believe in her willingness to contemplate marriage with her late sister 's husband , Philip II .
43 Early on a wet Sunday morning outside Yaroslavl station , in the centre of Moscow , my journey was complete and for the first time in 10 days I was alone .
44 And for the first time I began to think of rewriting Peter Pan in a fresh and different way .
45 Many of the hotels in this brochure do continue to provide waiter serve , although some of these will have buffet for breakfast and for the first course of main meals .
46 These high-performance , rugged tools are claimed to offer the best value for money on the market for the enthusiastic d-i-yer and tradesman , and for the first time offer the possibility of a battery recharging time of just a quarter of an hour .
47 Demolition trains became a regular sight on Sundays during 1987 however , and for the first time in over 30 years it was possible to photograph trains without the hindrance of electric stanchions .
48 And for the first time , she got a response , for Isobel bobbed her head slightly and then looked down at the infant in the cot .
49 And for the first time , Isobel smiled at her .
50 He never came to the hotel drunk and for the first time for years worked almost to a routine .
51 In the whole history of a people its holiest moment is when it awakens from its unconsciousness and for the first time thinks of its old holy rights .
52 In fact , Los Angeles scared him a little and for the first six months he barely ventured out of the house alone .
53 The NILP was represented by a strong contingent which carried the party banner and for the first time Ivan Cooper took a prominent part in the proceedings .
54 She came last to Lachlan , and for the first time since he had startled her raised her head to look him in the face .
55 They left Kabrit on 20 November and for the first stage of the journey were able to bowl down the coast road as far as Agedabia , by then firmly in British hands .
56 She accepted a glass of water and for the first time looked round in order to take in the room and the people before her .
57 Things began to improve in the nineteenth century , however , when more coordinated methods were employed , and for the first time , digging began to be directed at finding out about Pompeii , rather than making a profit .
58 And for the first time in the twenty-year history of St Christopher 's , a priest laughed in the pulpit .
59 Now the situation is changing and for the first time two excellent books have appeared on pain in children .
60 Bronwen reported the next day that Owen had slept deeply for about six hours , and for the first time in ages had not woken up several times during the night to go to the toilet .
  Previous page   Next page