Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [prep] [art] first time " in BNC.

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1 The new trolleybus service was numbered 654 and for the first time there was a through service crossing the main road at West Croydon .
2 Early on a wet Sunday morning outside Yaroslavl station , in the centre of Moscow , my journey was complete and for the first time in 10 days I was alone .
3 I was totally conscious and for the first time since my labour started I felt relaxed .
4 But the question had been unwelcome and for the first time some of his cockiness seemed to have drained from him .
5 His voice had deepened , the words becoming more guttural as for the first time since she 'd met him he seemed to struggle with a language which was not his own .
6 The equaliser brought more boost to Town , than United and for the first time in the game , the Oxford goal was under pressure .
7 He never came to the hotel drunk and for the first time for years worked almost to a routine .
8 Andrew Beattie was allowed a visit by his wife for a few minutes around half-past one and for the first time he learned that no strike organisers had been arrested other than in the Rathcoole district .
9 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 .
10 Soutter , the fourth seed , thus beat the player who caused her exclusion from England 's world title-winning team , in a final that for the first time since 1979 contained neither of the Guernsey girls , Martine le Moignan and Lisa Opie .
11 His two goals helped Vale beat local rivals Stoke for the first time since 1956 and for the first time ever in the FA Cup .
12 This was held on 16 February 1936 and for the first time in the history of the Second Republic involved an evenly matched contest between large , cohesive left- and right-wing alliances ; the Radical Party virtually disappeared as a significant force , leaving the political centre effectively unrepresented .
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