Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Brown observes : ‘ 'What does he do ? ’ remains the most illuminating question to ask about someone met for the first time . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 3 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 4 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 5 | When I got to the first rehearsal she announced , ‘ You 're all going to be in the Command Performance . ’ |
| 6 | But I was okay when I got to the first tee . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Before I got in the first team , ’ he says , ‘ I was asking myself over and over again : ‘ can I really do it ? ’ . |
| 8 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 9 | It may be argued that this is essentially the approach that I used in the first chapter . |
| 10 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 11 | This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers . |
| 12 | ‘ I came into the first form of his boarding school . |
| 13 | Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 . |
| 14 | The consequences of such a reduction in the level of armaments ( and more generally of ‘ military preparedness ’ ) are considerable , for as I noted in the first edition of this book , if there is any generalization about the causes of war which is supported by some empirical evidence , it seems to be that which establishes a connection between an arms race and an increased probability of war ( Richardson , 1960 ) . |
| 15 | I noticed for the first rime that there was a little hole in the door . |
| 16 | He stood up and I noticed for the first time a bunch of keys at his belt . |
| 17 | Looking back , I noticed for the first time how wind-bent and close-cropped were the cypresses . |
| 18 | I noticed for the first time that it was dreadfully long . |
| 19 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
| 20 | Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) . |
| 21 | Fenella took a deep breath and I noticed for the first time just how impressively she could breathe . |
| 22 | As for myself , I arrived at the first weekend in a state of high evangelism that must have bored everyone I met . |
| 23 | In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius . |
| 24 | And I believe it was then , looking on that view , that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me . |
| 25 | In relation to the former , as I indicated in the first paper , our capacity to invent commodity vocabulary is not paralleled by levels of commodity understanding . |
| 26 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |
| 27 | I stumbled to the first landing before the recurring cramp forced me to sit down on the floor . |
| 28 | As I hinted in the first paper , traditional design understanding has tried , in effect , to simplify design to make it conform to an already existent model of what a ( scientific , technological , artistic ) activity should look like . |
| 29 | Frances told me about their life in Cornwall and I felt for the first time in my life that I was among people of an older generation that I understood , real people . |
| 30 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |