Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for the first " in BNC.
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| 61 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 62 | COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment . |
| 63 | 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 . |
| 64 | O over this election , what you 've got ta do is every night , is if you 're interested is watch it for the first quarter of an hour of the news every night . |
| 65 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 66 | to , to erm to try and remember what it was like when you read it for the first time . |
| 67 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 68 | Patients will often be your greatest ally when testing yourself for the first time . |
| 69 | I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away . |
| 70 | But we still are left managing those people in ninety four , ninety five , as well as taking on board the new triangles , the one with the horizontal lines , where we 're going to get people presenting themselves for the first time , and requiring services . |
| 71 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 72 | Oh yes , most of the lads here are really erm over the moon about it , it was a tough game , we erm outplayed them for the first probably three quarters of an hour really . |
| 73 | Swan 's ‘ guest ’ ( ie , unpaid ) lecturers are academics singing for their supper and for the chance to revisit sites and monuments , or sometimes visit them for the first time . |
| 74 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
| 75 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 76 | Victor Sierra 's ‘ rubber band ’ possesses a great ability to frighten the life out of a pilot flying her for the first time , by apparently stopping if and whenever the revs drop below 1800 , when the most horrendous mixture-timing ‘ flat-spot ’ occurs and it all goes quiet up front . |
| 77 | A Jewish chronicler attributed the success of the expedition entirely to the youthful Ensign , calling him for the first time ‘ Cidi ’ , the equivalent of Mio Cid ‘ my lord ’ . |
| 78 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
| 79 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 80 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 81 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 82 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 83 | We will be dealing with all of those existing clients in terms of reassessing both their care needs and their financial ability to contribute to whatever package of care they 're getting , as well as taking on board all the new ones who present themselves for the first time in nineteen ninety four , five . |
| 84 | 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 . |
| 85 | Finn 's Hotel will enable us for the first time to approach the encyclopedic Finnegans Wake with a true and not misleading knowledge of its origins and of the prototypes of its protagonists . |
| 86 | It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us . |
| 87 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 88 | Carers are likely to be looking after a dying loved one for the first time in their life ; their anxieties may be greater than the patient 's . |
| 89 | In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation . |
| 90 | As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance . |