Example sentences of "[art] first time [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when Bert Rafferty was called to give evidence did Harriet Tremayne show any sign of breaking down , as she listened for the first time to his description of exactly what had happened on that harrowing morning . |
| 2 | BEVERLY Hills 90210 heart-throb Luke Perry has spoken for the first time of his nightmare childhood with a drunken father who beat up his mother . |
| 3 | Rubberneck , for the first time of his life ( he no longer wished to be a part , not when people fought as animals ) , felt close to God . |
| 4 | THE policeman whose hand was sewn back on after it was horrifically severed by a Samurai sword has spoken publicly for the first time of his ordeal . |
| 5 | The sense of failure that haloed his bowed head made Clare conscious for the first time of his identity as a person . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , former Tottenham player Gary Lineker 's Japanese adventure got underway when he trained for the first time with his Grampus Eight teammates at Nagoya yesterday . |
| 7 | Talking for the first time about his ordeal , Brian says : ‘ They left me in no doubt I was a leading suspect . |
| 8 | Now on the seventeenth of September Mr met Peter on the defendant 's firm er for the first time at his office , where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm , for two reasons . |
| 9 | ‘ My name 's Stirling , ’ he said , almost as though we were meeting for the first time outside his Club in London . |
| 10 | It was also a problem which enabled Labour 's new young leader , Neil Kinnock , to make his mark , perhaps for the first time since his election in October 1983 . |
| 11 | DEFIANT Dave Beasant last night spoke for the first time since his week-end goalkeeping torment and insisted : ‘ I still want to play for Chelsea . ’ |
| 12 | Helena and Patrick Keegan will visit the country where their son , Paul , died in a battle to liberate it , for the first time since his death in February 1991 . |
| 13 | For the first time since his arrival , Wexford remembered that there was another child , a mongol , confined somewhere in an institution . |
| 14 | For almost the first time since his reappearance in her life Laura found herself wondering whether she and Ross could have done anything to save their marriage all those years ago . |
| 15 | Sheldukher laughed heartily for the first time since his destruction of the Krondel constellation . |
| 16 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 17 | I wonder what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first for the first time in his life ? |
| 18 | It was a crash course in survival , and in learning how to get on with people ; but when he made friends there , he knew , probably for the first time in his life , that he was liked for who he was and not what he was . |
| 19 | One young farmer , Shermani Yussef , said that for the first time in his life he had been forced to lease some of his land to cover his losses . |
| 20 | A high-ranking Saudi , carrying a gun for the first time in his life , said it was for use not against Iraqis but against ‘ certain other nationalities ’ . |
| 21 | He needed to do just that , for he was tired , morose and bitter and , for the first time in his life , feeling very insecure . |
| 22 | To his pleasant surprise he discovered that he was now able to think with an objective clarity which stemmed from the knowledge that he was now free for the first time in his life to speak his mind without fear or favour . |
| 23 | For the first time in his life he was free from corporate restraints , to say what he really thought . |
| 24 | He wanted to bask in the developing closeness he and Jordan were enjoying , surfing sensorial highs , and being utterly open , perhaps for the first time in his life . |
| 25 | Less publicity shy was Stephen Quinn , publishing director of Vogue , the fashion magazine , who had voted Conservative for the first time in his life . |
| 26 | Nicky responded because , probably for the first time in his life , someone had shown trust in him and had treated him with respect . |
| 27 | He was wearing a tie for the first time in his life . |
| 28 | After all , if you had asked him , Boy would probably have said for the first time in his life , yes , thank you I am very happy . |
| 29 | As late as November 1927 he was revising poems for inclusion in Winter Words , the book with which he intended to mark his 90th birthday , but on 11 December , as Professor Millgate writes , ‘ he found himself , for the first time in his life , quite unable to work ’ . |
| 30 | He would , he realized , for the first time in his life have a socially acceptable problem . |