Example sentences of "for the first [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Eric Alston 's sprinter led the field for the first Sunday race at Doncaster a merry dance under Lester Piggott for just over five furlongs before fading behind Savoyard .
2 Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground .
3 The Dutchman Jos Lansink , the only rider left with a chance of meeting the conditions for the first Everest Challenge ( which had required him to jump double clear rounds in four specified contests ) , would have collected a Jaguar car if he had won the Grand Prix .
4 When the next one met , attracting three-quarters of all the world 's 1,050 or so Catholic bishops , it was in the basilica of St Peter 's for the first Vatican Council .
5 With her sharp pen and keen observation she was joined by Karl von Wiegand for the first Atlantic crossing voyage .
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