Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] first [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps for the first time he felt something akin to Eliza 's feelings , as he watched his boxes and bottles winched aboard ship and slowly disappear over the horizon . |
| 2 | Not for the first time he reflected on the power of grief . |
| 3 | Not for the first time he wished he believed in something as much as Gurder did so he could complain to it about his life . |
| 4 | Not for the first time he thought how monotonous it was , this unerring selection of inappropriate objects of desire . |
| 5 | Not for the first time he concluded that the Empire was inclined too quickly to dismiss mutant and alien societies and to confuse technological advancement with civilisation . |
| 6 | Not for the first time he wondered why it should affect him like that , when he himself was fond of Chuck and admired him , too . |
| 7 | Up to this moment he has always behaved as spontaneously as an animal , surrendering to appetite and vomiting ; now for the first time he makes a considered choice . |
| 8 | Now for the first time he touched her skin , the skin of her forehead , with his fingertips . |
| 9 | Here for the first time he found something of what the pilgrim on his bicycle had sought : ‘ the sense of mystery , and awe , and of another world at once far and near … a sense that we were vividly in the presence of the passion of Jesus and also vividly near to heaven , to which the passion mysteriously belonged , so as to be brought from the past to the present ’ . |
| 10 | Then for the first time he noticed how much noise the rats were making . |