Example sentences of "[adv] for the first time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But he declined to say whether the inspectors — two teams acting together for the first time in Iraq — had found any of the Scud missiles the United Nations thinks Iraq is hiding . |
| 32 | Susan came downstairs for the first time on Christmas Eve , and was genuinely delighted to see how pretty Breeze had made the sombre old dining-room . |
| 33 | Boccara/Boucherit of France had the next fastest time but they were seen to be wash hanging , not for the first time at this level , and a protest was upheld , posing the question why the umpires Riccardo Guala and Glyde Brytt had given white flags . |
| 34 | Not for the first time on a trip , the naturalist , writer and traveller Redmond O'Hanlon fantasized about waking between crisp , dry sheets . |
| 35 | Dr Neil , cradling him in his arms for a moment before handing him to McAllister to care for , wondered not for the first time on such occasions whether he had done the baby a favour by enabling him to live . |
| 36 | The CNT — not for the first time under the Republic — was driven virtually underground and most of the UGT executive imprisoned . |
| 37 | Not for the first time in the past few months , Jonadab was disturbed to recognise envy and the seeds of discord in his youngest son . |
| 38 | That is how the former SAS officer sums up his most recent adventure : the first crossing of Antarctica , the coldest place on earth , on foot , an expedition which has left him , not for the first time in his life , with severe frostbite.He is a man of extremes : in 1991 he led an international team which discovered the lost city of Ubar , in the hottest desert in the world , in Arabia.He will be talking about the ‘ hot and cold experience , ’ as he puts it , at Snape Maltings on Saturday April 24 . |
| 39 | Not for the first time in the last twenty-four hours Kate wondered what on earth had happened to her child . |
| 40 | We are then faced , not for the first time in the analysis of societies economically based on capitalist modes of production , with certain significant asymmetries between the social relations of the dominant productive mode and other relations within the general social and cultural order . |
| 41 | Indeed , it is not an exaggeration ( or a slur ) to say that the students were sometimes a jump ahead of their tutors , not for the first time in the history of education ! |
| 42 | Spruce consulted his list , failing to make any sort of connection and asked , not for the first time in the enquiry , ‘ Which Yaxlee would that be ? ’ |
| 43 | However , and not for the first time in this chronicle , I am wrong . |
| 44 | If things get too complicated , he told himself , not for the first time in the last few months , I can always make a run for it . |
| 45 | The chancellor who had long been an admirer of the queen , was affected not for the first time by her beauty and appeal — attributes which , it seemed to him , were in no way impaired by adversity . |
| 46 | Meanwhile for the first time since 1863 , the needy of Herefordshire will no longer be able to look to the sisters of Bartestree for compassion and care . |
| 47 | Meanwhile for the first time since 1863 , the needy of Herefordshire will no longer be able to look to the sisters of Bartestree for compassion and care . |
| 48 | President George Bush , responding formally for the first time on May 3 to a growing controversy , rejected as " sickening " the allegation that he had participated in a secret Paris meeting with Iranian officials in 1980 in order to reap electoral advantage by delaying the release of 52 US hostages held in Iran . |
| 49 | THE new crew of that colourful Clyde puffer , the Vital Spark , gathered yesterday for the first time aboard the vessel made famous in the Neil Munro tales . |
| 50 | Nor , she was sure , Bert , whom she had seen yesterday for the first time as a potentially responsible comrade . |
| 51 | There were a lot a lot involved there er and some of you actually found that that there was quite a lot that you really had to almost worry about and think about and and er yesterday for the first time of doing it with this this new method it does take quite a bit of thinking about and as we agreed practice is is what 's what 's important .. |
| 52 | Some were able to return home yesterday for the first time since Thursday . |
| 53 | Hodgson was in the witness box yesterday for the first time in the trial — now in its fifth week . |
| 54 | ‘ I thought I might have to sell my ticket , ’ added Birch , who returned to action yesterday for the first time in six months . |
| 55 | A FRENCH prisoner in Nazi Germany who stayed behind the Iron Curtain after the Second World War for the love of a Ukrainian woman returned home yesterday for the first time in 52 years . |
| 56 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
| 57 | You go to the most wonderful places , you STAND in Soweto outside Nelson Mandela 's little house and watch him come home for the first time in 25 years . |
| 58 | Second-row Jackson was sent off for the first time in his career along with South Wales Police hooker Colin Hillman after the two were caught wrestling off the ball . |
| 59 | In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades . |
| 60 | Once out of Leopold 's sight , Wolfgang began to enjoy himself without restriction , possibly for the first time in his life . |