Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [art] first time " in BNC.
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1 | The specifications of November 1939 became a reality just 43 years ago , when a CW pump evacuated model with sealing wax joints was switched on for the first time at the end of February 1940 , and operated successfully . |
2 | As a climax , you could arrange for some of the room lights to be switched off one by one before the tree-lights are switched on for the first time ( test them first ! ) . |
3 | For instance , a LAN operating system like NetWare or an appropriate environment like Windows for Workgroups can be largely pre-installed at the factory , with the remaining configuration being done via a fill-in-the-blanks , sign-on display when the thing 's switched on for the first time . |
4 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
5 | Andy Mutch has been trying his new kit on for the first time today . |
6 | There was one in this show when Charity Barnum 's understudy went on for the first time . |
7 | on for the first time yesterday |
8 | He had one fight in 1984 and was knocked down for the first time in his career . |
9 | The serious Christian , set down for the first time in a Christian community , is likely to bring with him a very definite idea of what Christian life together should be and try to realize it . |
10 | The curriculum laid down for the first time what pupils should learn in 10 subjects . |
11 | The woman clung to Julia 's hand and broke down for the first time , weeping and pouring out a torrent of Italian that Julia was incapable of translating for herself . |
12 | The leadership wants to see the proportion of union voting strength at party conferences reduced from the current 70 per cent — down for the first time this year from the traditional 90 per cent — to an eventual 50 per cent . |
13 | This piece of information caused Makins to slow down for the first time and look at me more carefully . |
14 | Trident sub goes down for the first time |
15 | Having driven thirty miles and for fifty minutes , he is forced to slow down for the first time . |
16 | ‘ Greed came in for the first time . |
17 | Brian Cox , who runs the operation , says : ‘ Anyone coming in for the first time is going to start by taking on what 's already there . |
18 | But you can get it in For the first time at any age . |
19 | Eventually , on Feb. 23 , a non-Congress ( I ) government was sworn in for the first time in 10 years . |
20 | ‘ I said if we did n't win this time we 'd abolish the b + + + + + + , ’ says Dixon , digging in for the first time since his Army days . |
21 | Second-row Jackson was sent off for the first time in his career along with South Wales Police hooker Colin Hillman after the two were caught wrestling off the ball . |
22 | In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades . |
23 | Aid workers say Central Bosnia , cut off for the first time this Winter by the war between Croats and Muslims , is facing a humanitarian catastrophe . |
24 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
25 | At his first school , Stockwell Junior School , David dressed up for the first time in a school nativity play . |
26 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
27 | He made his Palace debut on Boxing Day , teaming up for the first time with Dickie Dowsett and Ronnie Allen , and helped the Palace romp to a thrilling 3–0 victory over Millwall on a freezing surface . |
28 | ‘ Well , ’ Jed said , speaking up for the first time , ‘ at least there were n't any tolling bells in it . ’ |
29 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
30 | Gazza and Maradona square up for the first time for the world 's undisputed No 1 title as Lazio take on Seville in a friendly in Spain . |