Example sentences of "[pron] for the first time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 2 | At once she burst into tears and hugging me for the first time in years ( it seemed ) , cried , ‘ If only I had their faith ! ’ |
| 3 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 4 | Regina Royal Ginseng and Regina Evening Primrose Oil take those two remarkable natural substances and combine them for the first time with Regina 's fresh Royal Jelly . |
| 5 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 6 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 7 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 8 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
| 9 | Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories . |
| 10 | So we did the double over someone for the first time since beating Sheff United in the championship winning game . |
| 11 | For I am on equal terms with someone for the first time in my life . |
| 12 | Below me were Ribblehead and the viaduct , while to my right was Ingleborough which for the first time in days looked fresh and green instead of glowering and grey . |
| 13 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 14 | What lies in pieces around them represents , in effect , a unique private exhibition open to a lucky few who for the first time in generations have had the opportunity for hands-on experience of greatness . |
| 15 | These courses were taught by the college librarian , who for the first time in Britain was included on the teaching staff of the college on a teaching scale , and styled " Tutor-Librarian " . |
| 16 | This year Farnborough also has a skate scene emerging from Farnborough itself for the first time since about 1981 . |
| 17 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 18 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 19 | Carers are likely to be looking after a dying loved one for the first time in their life ; their anxieties may be greater than the patient 's . |
| 20 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 21 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 22 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 23 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 24 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 25 | As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance . |
| 26 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 27 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |
| 28 | He shrugged , leaning back in his chair , smiling at her for the first time with that devastating smile which made her heart beat faster . |
| 29 | He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done . |
| 30 | She was picturing her daughter , her beloved Angel , and as the pony stepped daintily over the cobbles she was counting the minutes until she was with her for the first time in nearly six months . |