Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] for the first " in BNC.

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1 Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay .
2 In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius .
3 At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened .
4 At this point I saw for the first time , a really good reason for my being in Thailand as PCV .
5 As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy .
6 ‘ Whenever the far end of an active edge A and the near end of an inactive edge I meet for the first time , if I satisfies A 's conditions for extension , then build a new edge as follows :
7 Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river .
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