Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time . |
| 32 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 33 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 34 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 35 | The work is of a very high standard , with several children who have recently joined the school writing something for the first time . |
| 36 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 37 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 38 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 39 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 40 | ‘ Meeting her for the first time was nerve-racking to say the least , ’ says one insider at BSkyB . |
| 41 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 42 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 43 | Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation . |
| 44 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 45 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 46 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 47 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 48 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 49 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 50 | This majestic sight , glimpsed through undulating woldland patchwork , or from the flatter marshland , entices all strangers who behold it for the first time to come and investigate the town further ; to discover its rich history and its modern enchantment . |
| 51 | After all , if you have begun addressing yourself for the first time to such an issue you are more likely to be able to have the courage of your convictions at work in trying to tackle , for example , management by inertia . |
| 52 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 53 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Labs — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 54 | This data set , coupled with extensive satellite observations , will give us for the first time a essentially a snapshot view of the behaviour of the ocean . |
| 55 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 56 | The tigress suckles them for the first six months , by which time they will weigh 100 lb ( 45 kg ) . |
| 57 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 58 | When you meet someone for the first time , that person can |
| 59 | Or , when the , no , when I see , I meet someone for the first time . |
| 60 | In April 1989 a " law on individual rights " was approved which for the first time explicitly recognized the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights . |