Example sentences of "[conj] that [be] the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do remember that that was the first time I wondered if I could bring myself to retire … |
| 2 | ‘ She knows my name ! ’ he commented wryly , and at that moment Leith realised that that was the first time she had used it . |
| 3 | Afterwards , the representative from the film company said , ‘ I 've been looking after him for two weeks and that 's the first time I 've seen his teeth … . ’ |
| 4 | And that 's the first time she 'd ever had a doctor . |
| 5 | Fifteen years I 've known and that 's the first time I 've ever heard him swear . |
| 6 | And that 's the first time |
| 7 | For a short while , neither of us was allowed to drive , and that was the first time I 've known Michael to be really downhearted . |
| 8 | In fact , it never occurred to me that it made a difference until I was in a trial and a scout said ‘ We 're quite interested in the coloured lad ’ and that was the first time I realized they thought of me as anything other than my name . |
| 9 | ‘ And that was the first time ye 'd ever set eyes on him ? ’ |
| 10 | but anyhow it , well they , they were there and he bought the pub did n't he and they were moving on the Saturday and he came on the Saturday morning and he cried take the furniture to pieces , some of the furniture , the wardrobes and there was a dining room table that they could n't get into the pub , could I dismantle them and re-assemble them again and that was the first time I 'd ever met him were n't I ? |
| 11 | I have been described as many things , but that is the first time I have been described as a tourist attraction . |
| 12 | It does n't , if you like , make sense and the key year , as I say , is nineteen seventy eight because that was the first time that spending on overseas holidays exceeded the spending on U K holidays . |