Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | She noticed for the first time that they had stopped , and looking round , discovered that they were outside the house . |
| 62 | She noticed for the first time that he had a slight limp . |
| 63 | Yes , they 've got a week or two to get it together and send it in , but we know from what people have pledged that that 's what we can expect at least , and that 's from over a thousand cyclists ranging from , I saw one child in a seat behind their parents on a bike , up to an eighty nine year old lady from Brill who cycled for the first time in years and really enjoyed it . |
| 64 | In her bedroom now , sipping her whisky , she acknowledged for the first time in her life that if she had to make a list of the happy times , it would properly have to include the hours she had spent with Graham in his garden . |
| 65 | When she attends for the first time , she assesses the patient : if he is out of bed and eating his breakfast , for instance , she observes whether he can feed himself , or whether he needs help ; whether he has perceptual problems ; how good his balance is while he is sitting ; whether he is limited by spasticity ; what his posture is like ; and then whether he is capable of standing and walking . |
| 66 | Like tourists who visit for the first time , it seemed our resident rabbits sensed the tranquil harmony that is the essence of this tiny unspoilt paradise in the Mediterranean . |
| 67 | Investigators who opt for the first solution may seek out variable syntactic elements where meaning variation does not constitute a serious problem ; this is the general approach taken by Cheshire . |
| 68 | There was also a great deal of indignation among ordinary British citizens who discovered for the first time after the massacre in Timişoara that Romania was ruled by a brutal tyrant who enjoyed the privileges of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath . |
| 69 | As she descended the stairs , she appreciated for the first time how far she had fallen from grace . |
| 70 | She exhibited for the first time in spring 1900 at the New English Art Club , an organization with strong Slade connections , and continued to show there twice yearly until 1903 . |
| 71 | But Agnew 's , who exhibited for the first time this year and made at least one sale of ‘ around $50,000 ’ said they were ‘ pleased with the quality of the crowd and would definitely do the show next year ’ . |
| 72 | 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 . |
| 73 | She listened for the first time in ages , pouring herself another glass of wine , knowing she was drinking a little too much , but doing it out of a desire to annoy Luke . |
| 74 | A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life . |
| 75 | Coming back , she saw for the first time that a letter addressed to herself lay on the kitchen table . |
| 76 | Here she speaks for the first time about her ordeal to Margaret Hall . |
| 77 | When she got home , she felt for the first time in months the need to write a letter , to commit her thoughts and feelings to paper and communicate through the medium of paper and pen with someone . |
| 78 | In the Ladies ' Singles , Jenny Binns is defending the title she won for the first time last year . |
| 79 | She smiled for the first time at him . |
| 80 | She smiled for the first time in hours . |
| 81 | She smiled for the first time , wincing as the pull of facial muscles reminded her she 'd had a crack on the head . |
| 82 | She spoke for the first time since luncheon began : " Darling , your spinach , please . " |
| 83 | The results represented a success for the Moderates and for two parties who exceeded for the first time the statutory 4 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation — the Christian Democrats ( whose only previous representation had been in 1985-88 when one of the Centre party 's seats was allocated to Christian Democrat in an electoral pact ) , and the New Democracy Party . |
| 84 | ’ She searched for the first page of Ararat . |
| 85 | She said she said for the first week you unwind , I thought if we have a weeks holiday that means that the time you unwind you 're back to work again ! |
| 86 | As she left for the first night party , she just had time to tell us what she thought : |
| 87 | On finishing it , had she realized for the first time that he meant to kill her ? |
| 88 | 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 . |
| 89 | Her voice acquired a jeering note , not unfamiliar to Roland , who wondered for the first time what his mother had been like before her disappointment , which in her case was his father and to some extent himself . |
| 90 | In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid . |