Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] for [art] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | Rachel flopped exhausted into the long white sofa and wrote a long letter to Jenny , pouring her heart out for the first time in three weeks , telling her everything that had happened since she left . |
| 32 | Jazz tossed his hair back for the first time to take in what was going on . |
| 33 | He called the villagers together for the first firing . |
| 34 | Perdita was in such a good mood that she and Daisy actually had supper together for the first time in months . |
| 35 | I cut the grass yesterday for the first time and it was like a meadow ! |
| 36 | Ray Hanna takes G–FIRE up for the first time , Elstree , March 14 , 1981. ( via Spencer Flack ) |
| 37 | CAIRO ( Reuter ) — Libya 's leader , Muammar Gaddafi , will visit Egypt tomorrow for the first time in 16 years and hold talks with President Hosni Mubarak , Egyptian presidential sources said . |
| 38 | ‘ It is interesting when I bring someone like Rodney Marsh here for the first time to see his reaction . |
| 39 | THE number of people who have been out of work for more than a year broke through the one million barrier today for the first time in five years . |
| 40 | Timmy , 34 , and his Australian wife Lynda proudly show off five -week-old William Theodore Mallett here for the first time . |
| 41 | After Mironov and Chapman had twice exchanged penalties in the first half , Chapman 's smart 30-yard dropped goal five minutes after the break put Cornwall ahead for the first time while Mishakov was off the field with a shoulder injury . |
| 42 | The old nomes grumbled among themselves , and scanned the sky anxiously for the first signs of robins or reindeer . |
| 43 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 44 | The approach of the two men to each other is conducted like a ritual , a crucial moment of which comes when they go up in a plane together for the first time . |
| 45 | Hodgson was in the witness box yesterday for the first time in the trial — now in its fifth week . |
| 46 | Loan star Imre Varadi comes in on the starting line up for the first time in favour of the suspended Nick Cusack . |
| 47 | Molla Gurani 's as kazasker ( an enlargement is given on p. 50 of the plates in Unver ) , for example , can not have been added before 845 , when he first came to the Ottoman lands , and was almost certainly added after 855 , when he held the kazaskerlik probably for the first and only time ( cf. below , pp. 169–71 ) , so that one can not be certain of the date when , or the circumstances in which , any of them was added . |
| 48 | Crowds of rail enthusiasts are expected to flock to the Settle-Carlisle line today for the first public run along BR tracks of the steam locomotive Blue Peter . |
| 49 | At his death he was unknown as a poet ; on 8 December 1975 , the centenary of the wreck of the Deutschland , a plaque to his memory was unveiled in poets ' corner , Westminster Abbey , honouring a Roman Catholic there for the first time since John Dryden [ q.v . ] . |
| 50 | The extravagant but spontaneous and absolutely marvellous celebrations which broke out in Lyon 's Palais des Sports the moment that Guy Forget completed his four sets victory over Pete Sampras to make sure that France had won the Davis Cup again for the first time in 59 years , will become part of sporting folklore . |
| 51 | that the Home Office er er and Chief Fire Officer not for the first time er this year but in previous erm budget . |
| 52 | Last year also for the first time it was televised by Yorkshire Television . |
| 53 | Andy Payton will be in the starting line-up today for the first time since Boro 's last defeat , at Millwall , five weeks ago . |
| 54 | Actually , actually had a fried egg for breakfast today for the first time |
| 55 | So consequently every time I moved school , moved into different I had to fight me way there for the first week because I hated anyone to call me Ginger you see ? |
| 56 | Our friendly policeman had gone but there were nurses there for the first time that I 'd seen , and even the odd doctor . |
| 57 | The Green Party won representation locally for the first time with 14 seats ; and Sinn Féin won seven seats ( 10 in 1985 ) . |
| 58 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 59 | They come round at the interval and say , ‘ Was Ruby on for the first half ? ’ and I say , ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 60 | Females often produce it as a contact call for their cubs , particularly when they start going out on rambles together for the first time . |