Example sentences of "[art] first time [conj] i was " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Almost for the first time since I was a child , ’ I thought , ‘ I am glad that it is my birthday . |
| 2 | ‘ I fell in love for the first time while I was still at school , ’ she has revealed . |
| 3 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 4 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 5 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 6 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |