Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam , without any hesitation had agreed knowing that to wait for the first available fireman would delay his train 's departure . |
| 2 | Although Il Moro led for the first two legs , New Zealand showed her fearsome ability to climb to windward when she squeezed up from underneath Il Moro to take the lead at the third mark . |
| 3 | A cow , reared for the first six months of its life in an environment of people and horses , may refuse to have anything to do with cows in its own paddock for all the years that follow . |
| 4 | Although a total prohibition exists for the third category above , special circumstances may exist for the first two services . |
| 5 | Active or REM sleep onset will persist for the first twelve months of life in normal infants . |
| 6 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
| 7 | As an example , if there is a gain on the sale of a property owned equally for fifteen years , occupied for the first ten years by both husband and wife and for the last five years by only the wife , there is complete exemption on the one-half share occupied by the wife throughout , and a chargeable gain to the extent of two-fifteenths of the gain on the other half ( the chargeable years being the five years after occupation had ceased less the 36 months ) . |
| 8 | THE COMBINED Birmingham Railway Museum and Birmingham Mail ‘ Santa Specials ’ were enjoying good publicity and seat booking for the first two Sundays in December . |
| 9 | Grade III buildings were those which , whilst not qualifying for the first statutory list when compiled in 1949–69 , were considered nevertheless to be of some importance for planning purposes . |
| 10 | As soon as the passport came through , Coleman should wait for the first convenient lull in the fighting in Beirut and then leave immediately . |
| 11 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 12 | This can be reduced a little if she goes in with all she needs for the first few days : a clean dressing-gown , slippers , a change of night clothes and bedjacket and all the toilet articles and other small items she is likely to want . |
| 13 | As a full stomach makes it even harder for a baby with RDS to breathe he was n't able to feed for the first few days and relied on the drip . |
| 14 | But the England international was sidelined for the first 24 games of the current campaign with a stress fracture of the foot . |
| 15 | The programmes will be subject to review with the passage of time but no substantial additions to them will be made for the first six years ( except for changes required because of matters outside of governing body control and except for minor alterations to equipment ) . |
| 16 | He carries the Staff of the Patriarchs made for the first Supreme Patriarch Volans by the warrior mage Fredrick von Tarnus after the Great War against Chaos . |
| 17 | Trees grown on MM111 rootstock will reach a robust 18–20ft in height , but wo n't crop for the first six years . |
| 18 | There is a period of training in which joint reporting by a consultant and a registrar occurs for the first 50 studies . |
| 19 | His Queensland team-mate , Michael Doohan , the winner in Japan , set the qualifying pace ahead of defending champion Wayne Rainey , on a Yahama , and Kevin Schwantz , the Suzuki team leader , who is still looking for a first major title breakthrough . |
| 20 | And they 're looking for the first little thing ! |
| 21 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 22 | On Nov. 13 Clinton unveiled a new ethics code for those in his transition team which prohibited members from lobbying for the first six months of the new administration . |
| 23 | That shows that both the president 's National Party ( NP ) and the ANC intend to be prepared for the first non-racial elections for a constituent assembly ; it is also a clear sign that both of them are sure that they can convince the other parties that the path they have laid down is the one to follow . |
| 24 | Yeah , I did n't smoke for the first six months and then I finished work and I was at home |
| 25 | At the time of writing , funding has been secured for the first five years ; it is to be hoped that the data will prove so useful that it will become indispensable to British social science . |
| 26 | When I came back from Bletchley , I had agreed to tutor for the First Ordinary English class at Edinburgh University a Polish woman considerably older than myself . |
| 27 | The CAT scanner which the hospital wants for its X ray department will cost £600,000 to buy and run for the first few years . |
| 28 | They had food in their saddlebags for two days , and the pack mules carried grain and hay for the horses , there being little forage in the hills the patrol would traverse for the first two days . |
| 29 | The causes of this are not entirely clear , but were probably a combination of the increasing costs of warfare ( as the empire came under severe pressure from the barbarians across the Rhine and Danube , and from the Persians in the east ) and of the exhaustion of the Roman mines in Spain , which seem for the first two centuries AD to have provided an important contribution to the difference between Rome 's income ( taxes ) and expenditure ( especially on war ) . |
| 30 | On Jan. 26 Saudi Arabia announced that it would commit $13,500 million to US costs for the first three months of the war . |