Example sentences of "new [noun prp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1280 , for example , ‘ the metes and bounds of the New Forest from the first time that it was afforested ’ were said to extend from the Test westwards to the Avon , and from the Solent northwards to the Wiltshire county boundary . |
| 2 | A BRITISH tourist shot dead in New Orleans on the first day of her holiday may have died because her boyfriend refused a mugger 's demand for money . |
| 3 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 4 | Of 35 teams in New Zealand for the first Raid , all but five were French . |
| 5 | In March 1992 I returned to New Zealand for the first time in over a dozen years , to sample again what light aviation there has to offer visitors . |
| 6 | Since Hick 's elevation to the Test team we 've seen England share the most successful series against West Indies in the last nine , win a series against New Zealand for the first time in four attempts , win a Test match against Pakistan for the first time in 10 years , and , for good measure , reach the World Cup final . |
| 7 | Two rare kakapo chicks have been hatched in captivity in New Zealand for the first time . |
| 8 | Alan Ball admitted his men had it all to do after his men crashed to South Africa , the Australian wicket went for a duck as a defending champion slumped said we are going to have to do it the hard way now , we just did n't play very , we did n't get it together against New Zealand in the first match and today we were never in the picture , our brothers never really had a chance of any attempt of a hundred and seventy , but full credit to South Africa they are a rate , a better to side |
| 9 | THE St Petersburg National Opera ( the ‘ National ’ ) , Chaliapin 's company , is in New York for the first time . |
| 10 | The Kitchens are in New York for the first time , because last August , A&M America heard their just-completed second album and bought it on the spot . |
| 11 | The ride down Northern Boulevard from La Guardia airport to the Queensboro bridge may not be the best way to see New York for the first time although Maxim caught glimpses of its towers jolting towards them over the grey horizon . |
| 12 | But does anybody see New York for the first time these days ? |
| 13 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 14 | and the resourceful Jeeves Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry find themselves back in New York in the first new episode of the new and final series of Jeeves and Wooster beginning on I T V this week . |