Example sentences of "[prep] the first time [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a lot a lot involved there er and some of you actually found that that there was quite a lot that you really had to almost worry about and think about and and er yesterday for the first time of doing it with this this new method it does take quite a bit of thinking about and as we agreed practice is is what 's what 's important .. |
| 2 | In the report the former President , Chiang Kai-shek was criticized for the first time for failing to punish the officials responsible for the massacre . |
| 3 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 4 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 5 | He was able to provide information on age , sex , and growth of whales for the first time without killing , touching , marking , or molesting a single animal . |
| 6 | A man who suffered severe brain damage during an operation twenty six years ago has been talking for the first time about losing his fight for compensation . |
| 7 | For the first time since taking over as Chief Constable last month Tony Butler held a meeting to talk about policing in Gloucestershire . |
| 8 | For the first time since leaving the Harvard Business School of Management Klepner now began to have a glimmer of understanding of the many important practical differences between Europe and the United States . |
| 9 | Joseph 's melancholy had begun to evaporate for the first time since leaving the hunting camp as the goateed mandarin , walking ponderously beside him in ceremonial boots , reeled off the mystical-sounding names of the shimmering buildings : the Can-Chanh , the Great Mansion the Palace of the Spirits of the Six Emperors … the Temple of Generations … the Halls of the Splendours and the Moon and the Glory of the Sun — and most mysterious of all to his young impressionable mind , the guarded heart of the citadel , the Tu Cam Thanh , the Purple Forbidden City named after the Purple or Pole Star , the symbolic ruler of the heavens . |
| 10 | She was warm , deliciously warm , all over , for the first time since leaving Scotland , and when she had arrived , but an hour before , she had come straight up to Aunt Emily 's room with no injunctions to change her boots or smooth her hair , and been given a tray of tea and toast cut into little fingers and tiny biscuits flavoured with almond . |
| 11 | Howe , who underwent heart by-pass surgery four-and-a-half years ago , is speaking publicly for the first time since entering hospital earlier this month with a mystery chest complaint . |
| 12 | Ireland 's challenge will be led by Brief Truce , who runs for the first time since accounting for both Rodrigo de Triano and Arazi in the St James 's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot . |
| 13 | But as she sipped the hot , reviving brew , she realised for the first time since buying the house just how very quiet it was — eerily quiet . |
| 14 | WARTIME Spitfire pilot F/L Tony Cooper was recently re-united with his aircraft for the first time since crashing on marshland near the Humber Estuary in 1944 . |
| 15 | So we did the double over someone for the first time since beating Sheff United in the championship winning game . |
| 16 | The local club , Cremonese , won for the first time since gaining promotion - and their victims were the European Cup holders , Milan . |
| 17 | Boro recalled full back Curtis Fleming for the injured Gary Parkinson and Falconer was in the squad for the first time since suffering a knee injury in the Rumbelows Cup first round against Bournemouth in September . |
| 18 | Forced realignments of the ERM have lately become almost tiresomely familiar : they cause nothing like the excitement of last September 's startling breakdown , when Spain devalued for the first time since joining , and Britain and Italy decided , until further notice , to leave the system altogether . |
| 19 | Rangers ' goalkeeper , who has a valid claim to the title of Britain 's best by his displays in Europe this season , has missed two matches in succession for the first time since joining the club from Hibs and will not train today . |
| 20 | In his address to the assembled Reichstag at the Nuremberg Party Rally on 15 September 1935 , Hitler took up the ‘ Jewish Question , in a major public speech for the first time since becoming Reich Chancellor , recommending acceptance of the three laws placed before it — the ‘ Flag law ’ and the two notorious anti-Jewish ‘ Nuremberg Laws ’ ( the Reich Citizenship Law , preventing Jews from becoming citizens of the Reich , and the ‘ Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour ’ , banning marriage and sexual relations between Jews and ‘ aryans ’ ) . |
| 21 | Once in the shadows we notice the gusting , frozen wind , and for the first time since arriving in Bolivia we feel cold while climbing . |
| 22 | In the silence that followed Denis was suddenly aware , for the first time since arriving at the barn , of farmyard noises nearby . |
| 23 | By Tuesday , he was able to venture out of doors for the first time since arriving home , late and ailing , on Thursday night . |
| 24 | It was in the corresponding race last year , held at Gateshead , that she returned to top class competition for the first time since giving birth to daughter Rachel . |
| 25 | McKenzie was fighting for the first time since losing his IBF title to Ulster 's Dave McAuley . |
| 26 | For the first time since losing her way she felt scared . |
| 27 | The under-21s are more even highly-fancied to retain the national title , which they won last year for the first time by beating Nottinghamshire in the final . |
| 28 | In December , Stuttgart will host the Davis Cup final , in which the West Germans will defend the trophy they won for the first time by defeating Sweden in Gothenburg , and in the coming three years Frankfurt will stage the ATP Tour World Championship , which will supersede the Nabisco Masters in New York . |
| 29 | Had they succeeded for the first time in outstripping the rumours of their coming ? |
| 30 | Physicists of the Joint European Torus ( JET ) based near Oxford , England , suceeded for the first time in producing for two seconds energy by means of nuclear fusion . |