Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius . |
| 2 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 3 | At this point I saw for the first time , a really good reason for my being in Thailand as PCV . |
| 4 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 5 | Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 . |
| 6 | Holland I sank before the first nuclear tests and was shielded by the sea from radiation . |
| 7 | Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river . |
| 8 | The women I met in the refuge , and others I met in the first few weeks of my journey , stated their own investment in this book : they did n't want to be objects observed , they wanted to be its subjects . |
| 9 | The uppers , made of one piece calf leather with leather bellows , well padded tongue and collar , provided the comfort I remembered from the first day . |