Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [art] first time " in BNC.

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1 I actually had to curtail part of the business the first time .
2 I also told her that there was no guarantee that she would come up with the answer the first time she was regressed , as this would be a new experience for her and her ever-protective subconscious would not want her to be upset in any way .
3 He had been in the boot the first time , and masked on the floor of the back seat the second .
4 The man who 's watching him followed him as near as possible to the mountain the first time but he could n't go any further without being seen — the same problem we had with Scano 's boy yesterday .
5 Hatton got knocked on the head the first time but the second time he was n't hurt , only tied up . ’
6 She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her .
7 ‘ I set your name up on the account the first time we met .
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