Example sentences of "[adj] for [pron] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet he waited until 1986 for his first official race on the dirt and began his tarmac career just a year later . |
| 2 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 3 | Nicky Summerbee will probably move back into defence and Paul Hunt come in at number 7 for his first full league game of the season . |
| 4 | Top seed Peter Hayden forget to put his clock forward and turned up too late for his first round match , in an unhappy day for the seeds . |
| 5 | We made the cut in 1970 for my first British Open with Tom , but a bad last round put him down the field . |
| 6 | For a show due to open for its first public preview in a week 's time The Hooded Owl was in far from promising shape . |
| 7 | All right , nine was a little young for her first sexual encounter , but now she 's come to like it she 's become such a friendly child . |
| 8 | Rystrom was leading the field by a shot at 11 under and needed a par four for his first European Tour victory . |
| 9 | Counter staff June Fifield and Diane Langley spent Monday morning in training ready for their first full day 's opening on Wednesday . |
| 10 | BRM 's F1 return had to wait until the new two-litre P25 was ready for its first full season in 1956 . |
| 11 | On the morning of the sixth day , Hullabaloo and Artemis jumped a line of good hedges in perfect harmony , and by the end of the first week Annellie Clyde considered her pupil ready for her first full day out . |
| 12 | By June 1980 we were ready for our first serious collecting trip . |