Example sentences of "[that] for the [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | The motorbike slowed so that for the first time they could see the outlines of the rider , a derelict farmhouse appeared in its headlight beam and the car behind them started flashing its lights . |
2 | But on 20 September the Commission announced that for the first time it would take Britain before the European Court of Justice . |
3 | The intactness of the tomb meant that for the first time it was possible to analyse fully how the many objects found within it were used , and their ritual and social implications within the Sicàn culture better understood . |
4 | Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul . |
5 | Then he realised that for the first time he was looking into the front of a hurricane . |
6 | While feeling a little sad at leaving , Mr. Offer said that for the first time he would be looking forward to an extra hour in bed in the morning . |
7 | ‘ The reason I do n't have a band is that for the longest time I 've been disgusted with the mode that the American independent scene operates in and I do n't want to be associated with that . |