Example sentences of "[noun prp] for the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We can not win the Ryder Cup , the Curtis Cup , the Walker Cup in the United States for the first time again . |
| 32 | Useful pedigree CHICAGO ( AP ) — The Queen of England will race a horse in the United States for the first time in 35 years at Arlington International Racecourse . |
| 33 | You visited the United States for the first time in 1963 . |
| 34 | In 1975 , Laura visited the United States for the first time to see the San Francisco venture for herself . |
| 35 | The month-long finals , to be staged in the United States for the first time , will take place in nine cities , beginning on 17 June , 1994 . |
| 36 | And you had the impression he knew that would be the case as he raced down Jefferson Avenue for the first time . |
| 37 | Tan heard Bach and Beethoven for the first time , and ‘ totally forgot about myself ’ . |
| 38 | The House of Commons met on a Saturday for the first time since the war . |
| 39 | But that Saturday for the first time in his life , he invited his youngest son Patsy to attend the ball-game along with himself and his other three sons . |
| 40 | As well as being profitable and actually paying a dividend back to Detroit for the first time in years , Vauxhall is an important part of the GM empire for political reasons . |
| 41 | He returned to Syria for the first time in July 1992 to attend the funeral of his mother . |
| 42 | In the interests of maintaining " fair competition " between public and private providers and the efficient use of capital , a system of capital charges was introduced into the NHS for the first time , and all hospitals were made responsible for meeting the interest and depreciation costs of their existing assets and new investment . |
| 43 | I turned and saw Dorian Gray for the first time . |
| 44 | He was also still considerably lighter , although as he rolled his sleeves right up to the top of his arms , Ellie for the first time was aware of the amount of muscle he seemed to have gained . |
| 45 | On Saturday I sat there watching his team lose at home to Chelsea and listening to an Australian Evertonian who was back at Goodison for the first time since he emigrated in 1985 . |
| 46 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 47 | Today , South Africa play rugby in England for the first time in nearly 23 years when a line-up containing five current internationals faces the Midlands at Leicester 's Welford Road . |
| 48 | They will also be showered with gifts like top-of-the-range Mercedes cars and luxury apartments if they can spring a World Cup upset and beat England for the first time . |
| 49 | Many Irish women , including myself , who had come to England for the first time were truly shocked by the levels of anti-Irish racism directed at us . |
| 50 | Here he 'd smelt the air of England for the first time , the crisp October air ; here he 'd fed first , drunk first ; first had cause for laughter , and later , for tears . |
| 51 | The England captain is a level-headed man , and Javed Mianded , who turns 35 on June 12 , is a much matured person with the added responsibility of leading his team to England for the first time , although he has captained Pakistan in 28 previous Tests , winning 11 and losing five , the rest being drawn . |
| 52 | As pesticide concentrations in the environment fall , birds of prey are returning to areas of eastern England for the first time in decades . |
| 53 | DAVID PLATT , the Juventus midfielder , will captain England for the first time in the World Cup clash with San Marino at Wembley tonight . |
| 54 | When the £5 million Juventus midfielder leads out England for the first time he will spare a thought for the man who captained England to 1966 World Cup glory , just 48 hours after Bobby Moore revealed that he was battling cancer . |
| 55 | A year later Moore captained England for the first time , against Czechoslovakia . |
| 56 | The plan is that none of these people will be able to purchase any of the seven thousand tickets available to England for the first round matches . |
| 57 | to enter information about an SPR for the first time |
| 58 | With a touch of paint , the ex-lifeboat The Guy and Clare Hunter — it was named after two of its most generous benefactors — took to the high seas of Belfast Lough for the first time this summer . |
| 59 | On the same Toronto junket , following a rather splendid lunch at the Granite Club with a friend from CFRB , I met Roy Thomson for the first time . |
| 60 | As I came into my room , I saw Edward Hyde for the first time . |