Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] for the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river . |
| 32 | The contractions stopped and I wondered for the hundredth time what my son would look like . |
| 33 | The Front comprised political and religious organizations and parties based in Iraq and Jordan , including the Moslem Brotherhood , which agreed for the first time to co-operate without preconditions with nationalist and non-religious groups . |
| 34 | The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman ! |
| 35 | The other two mammal species which bred for the first time were a pair of Geoffroy 's marmoset which had one youngster , and the cheetah female , Angie , who produced four cubs . |
| 36 | Nonetheless , George Albert Smith 's name stands as the inventor of a colour process which was viable , which was shown worldwide , and which presented for the first time on the screen a photographically produced colour picture . |
| 37 | The Secret Committee on the Peasant Question , which convened for the first time on 3 January 1857 , consisted entirely of Nicholaevan grandees . |
| 38 | A group of Irrawaddy dolphins , which appeared for the first time in Laos last year , are in danger of dying out as a result of the increasing use of gill nets by local fishermen . |
| 39 | Figure 2 shows the undulator for this new facility , which lasted for the first time in January 1992 . |
| 40 | She experienced for the first time the frightening inhospitality of city streets . |
| 41 | She realised for the first time how Benjamin must be feeling . |
| 42 | ‘ 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 . |
| 43 | Speechless , she glared at him , then felt the colour start back to her cheeks as she realised for the first time what he was dressed in , which was very little indeed . |
| 44 | But as she sipped the hot , reviving brew , she realised for the first time since buying the house just how very quiet it was — eerily quiet . |
| 45 | The Soviet announcement in September 1989 that it was to dismantle the Krasnoyarsk radar station in Siberia ( see p. 36909 ) was followed by a statement on Oct. 23 , 1989 , by the Soviet Foreign Minister , Eduard Shevardnadze , who admitted for the first time that the location and orientation of the radar station constituted " a violation of the ABM treaty " . |
| 46 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 47 | She realized for the first time fully consciously that she was ill at ease with , even afraid of , very tall men . |
| 48 | When she heard the voice of Sam 's mother she realized for the first time that it was more than likely that her own mother would , during the course of the evening , make some reference to the dinner-party which , she had been led to believe , was taking place in Pam 's house . |
| 49 | ‘ But why ca n't I join Brownies , Mummy ? ’ she asked for the twentieth time . |
| 50 | Among those taking up the challenge was Haslemere architect Alan Coombes , who entered for the 15th time with his 1914 three-and-a-half horsepower three-speed , 4,500cc Douglas . |
| 51 | At the door , she stopped for the last time . |
| 52 | Christina flicked back her long hair and concentrated on Pauline , who seemed for the first time to want to confide in her . |
| 53 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 54 | She noticed for the first time that he was wearing a pair of white , glowing incongruously in the twilight . |
| 55 | She noticed for the first time that they had stopped , and looking round , discovered that they were outside the house . |
| 56 | She noticed for the first time that he had a slight limp . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | As she descended the stairs , she appreciated for the first time how far she had fallen from grace . |