Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] for the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | Kit had learned how to grow certain lucrative crops on the mainland , when he served with Roger Pole and the local Indians had been drafted to instruct them ; but he was cultivating indigo for the first time , in Sycorax 's former enclave , and he found the plant tricky and demanding and considered its production women 's work . |
| 32 | Even that incomplete list of achievements takes on special significance when people encounter Nadia for the first time and learn how a genetic abnormality meant she was born with only one finger on each hand . |
| 33 | ‘ It 's the best day of my life , ’ said Capriati after defeating Graf for the first time . |
| 34 | Tomorrow Barry visits Northampton for the first time since surgeons at the local hospital saved his legs from amputation . |
| 35 | SOARING sales mean workers at car giant Rover are being asked to work Sundays for the first time in living memory . |
| 36 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
| 37 | CCG will continue to provide services for the first year of operation and hopefully into the future . |
| 38 | Bully Boy 's owner , Ron Taylor , who is involved in various interests in Lambourn , admitted to having ‘ a nice punt ’ on the six-year-old , who was tackling fences for the first time . |
| 39 | Domestic consumption of grain overtook production for the first time . |
| 40 | In November a Vatican delegation visited Vietnam for the first time . |
| 41 | To mark the country 's first successful bone marrow transplant involving an un-related donor , Norwegian television arranged for her to meet Janet for the first time in front of an estimated two-and-a-half million viewers . |
| 42 | The American Psychiatric Association has chosen eating disorders for the first of its series of detailed practice guidelines , derived from the literature and from a consensus of expert reviewers , to assist doctors in clinical decision making . |
| 43 | When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield . |
| 44 | Only three other deaf men became missioners for the first time in the 1920s , although some moved from one place to another like George Mackenzie . |
| 45 | In the following month the Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister , Kunihiko Saito , had visited Moscow for the first working-level negotiations on the dispute since the termination of the Soviet Union . |
| 46 | It is on this trip to Moscow that Anna meets Vronsky for the first time . |
| 47 | Meeting Sien for the first time and getting to know her was like knowing ‘ a fellow creature as lonesome and unhappy as myself ’ , no more and no less . |
| 48 | Dave meets Andy for the first time and says ‘ Nice to meet you . ’ |
| 49 | From what I could gather , we played crap for the first 20–25 minutes . |
| 50 | It showed a replay of Tammuz meeting Ari for the first time in the canteen . |
| 51 | Multi-user systems cost $7,000 for the first user ; $3,360 for each additional . |
| 52 | Amdahl Corp , Sunnyvale has launched a consulting service and data storage feature to facilitate the migration of customers to Escon Architecture : the company accompanies the new service with a new Serial Channel Feature for next quarter for use with its 6100 Storage Processor , which attaches to parallel channel adaptors on the 6100 and enable it to support serial Escon channel connections ; a 6100 with the feature will support up to 32 Escon serial channels or a mixture of serial and parallel channels ; native serial channels cost $62,560 for the first four and $32,280 for each additional pair ; the Serial Channel Feature start at $21,000 . |
| 53 | This medium , meeting Tom for the first time , said Tom 's father was with them , and he had a small brown dog . |
| 54 | 1989 : As CD outsells vinyl for the first time , rumours are rife about the impending arrival of a blank , recordable CD . |
| 55 | Drink up : Euro Disney has begun to serve alcohol for the first time at four of its restaurants as it seeks to stem heavy losses from weak attendance . |
| 56 | ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time . |
| 57 | RUGBY LEAGUE : The Stones Bitter Premiership final at Old Trafford on Sunday , May 17 , is to be made all-ticket for the first time . |
| 58 | I have already suggested that in speech we normally plan at the point of utterance and that is evidenced in those typical features of speech which appear so surprising and , indeed , shocking to people inspecting transcripts for the first time . |
| 59 | However , Mitterrand denied on Jan. 20 that there was any geographical limitation on French commitment to the allied force and on Jan. 24 French aircraft bombed Iraq for the first time . |
| 60 | It is expected that support materials for the first clusters will be available in summer 1992 . |