Example sentences of "and for the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | In fact , Los Angeles scared him a little and for the first six months he barely ventured out of the house alone . |
| 32 | The NILP was represented by a strong contingent which carried the party banner and for the first time Ivan Cooper took a prominent part in the proceedings . |
| 33 | She came last to Lachlan , and for the first time since he had startled her raised her head to look him in the face . |
| 34 | They left Kabrit on 20 November and for the first stage of the journey were able to bowl down the coast road as far as Agedabia , by then firmly in British hands . |
| 35 | She accepted a glass of water and for the first time looked round in order to take in the room and the people before her . |
| 36 | Things began to improve in the nineteenth century , however , when more coordinated methods were employed , and for the first time , digging began to be directed at finding out about Pompeii , rather than making a profit . |
| 37 | And for the first time in the twenty-year history of St Christopher 's , a priest laughed in the pulpit . |
| 38 | Now the situation is changing and for the first time two excellent books have appeared on pain in children . |
| 39 | Bronwen reported the next day that Owen had slept deeply for about six hours , and for the first time in ages had not woken up several times during the night to go to the toilet . |
| 40 | Soon the mousy man became exhausted by struggling with the suitcase and for the first time the Feldwebel carried it for him . |
| 41 | It was a chilly evening when I left London via Paddington for Bedford , and for the first time I saw signs of panic . |
| 42 | This commenced with the Year eight pupils and for the first time in 1991 , we will be presenting all our school leavers with a RAE which again we feel will be of a high quality . |
| 43 | Someone who , through years of toil among parish registers , discerns and for the first time explains the minutiae of demographic change in a northern mill town , is clearly doing that sort of thing . |
| 44 | It is a language that needs a large memory capacity and for the first time there were machines available to use it . |
| 45 | In March 1980 the International Robot Symposium and Exhibition was held in Milan , and for the first time a British robot manufacturer showed its wares in a manner comparable with the best . |
| 46 | This year BMW will make about 580,000 cars and for the first time outstrip Mercedes . |
| 47 | Dunlop refused and for the first time revealed that he considered himself to be the sole owner of the horse . |
| 48 | The stage was set for the establishment of thirteen ‘ centres of excellence ’ for the development of full-time surveying — thanks , principally to the foresight and energy of HMI Howard Wainwright — and for the first time a sense of security and confidence was available to the selected centres , as they were encouraged to improve their resources base and to develop exempting RICS diplomas , and subsequently degrees , to be validated by the CNAA . |
| 49 | And for the first time Violet was sorry . |
| 50 | Proposals were made to give new powers to the police to control protest , as well as other processions and assemblies , and for the first time to require organisers to inform the police of their intentions in advance . |
| 51 | His patience was dwindling and for the first time in four years of marriage she could see he was on the point of losing his temper . |
| 52 | Once the heaviness dropped away her black hair formed into tight curls , and for the first time she looked almost pretty . |
| 53 | a ) From : 7.00 pm — and for the first performance when there are two performances from 6.00 pm — GEORGE IV BRIDGE both sides and CHAMBERS STREET both sides . |
| 54 | I was totally conscious and for the first time since my labour started I felt relaxed . |
| 55 | He understood at once why she had not told him ; he remembered the glass of milk in the café , and for the first time in weeks he was able to weep . |
| 56 | And for the first time in nearly three years she had been able to talk about Martin . |
| 57 | We enacted this scene , scripts in hand , during a therapy session — and for the first time , Matthew felt angry with Marianne . |
| 58 | But the whole incident has depressed me and for the first time since being diagnosed it occurs to me that I might be dying . |
| 59 | His return journey had been even more dramatic , on a fishing boat , and for the first week he charged the families nothing at all . |
| 60 | There is an objectivity behind the subjectivity of our preferences which entitles you to recommend to me a dish which you do not choose yourself and which I have hitherto been repelled by , but may come to like if I can forget my prejudices and for the first time attend closely to the flavour . |