Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 2 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 3 | In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor . |
| 4 | I went yesterday for the first time . |
| 5 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 6 | And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it . |
| 7 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 8 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 9 | It was The Association of Women Artists and Friends of Art in Berlin , an association of women artists , who banded together for the first time on 13 January , 1867 , to overcome some of the structural obstacles to women artists . |
| 10 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
| 11 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 12 | To all of them , Fry is Barnet , and without him there , few will have good reason to stay at Underhill , particularly as they alleged publicly for the first time yesterday that chairman Stan Flashman had physically threatened them . |
| 13 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 14 | At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time . |
| 15 | The charter provides evidence of a surprisingly well-worked-out system to ensure castle-guard of the town : in April , May , June , July and August , it was the count 's responsibility , though he paid only for the first two months directly out of his own treasury ; , the inhabitants of the town produced a tax for the following three . |
| 16 | Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears . |
| 17 | More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time . |
| 18 | He smiled then for the first time , and the smile lightened his face to a sudden , vivid charm . |
| 19 | King Hussein delivered a televised speech to the nation on Nov. 5 in which he spoke publicly for the first time about his recent cancer surgery in the United States [ see p. 39118 ] , announcing that he would have to undergo further tests in the USA . |