Example sentences of "[adv] for the first [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight for the first time I was deeply worried after seeing the pictures of the attack on a civilian shelter . |
| 2 | As my one hundred and eighty-nine pounds in their six feet frame laboured up behind him , not for the first time I smiled , remembering the advice of the South American Handbook to ‘ try and look as little like a tourist as possible ’ . |
| 3 | The sun beat into the sedan , and not for the first time I questioned the desirability of our climate as applied to automobile drivers . |
| 4 | Then he went on — ‘ Here for the first time I talked about our country with a white Rhodesian . |
| 5 | Or , maybe for the first time I am standing there looking vulnerable . |
| 6 | Here , almost for the first time I can remember on disc , his vibrato , relatively rapid and even , becomes distracting in sustained passages , which will trouble some ears more than others . |