Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the first time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As this was fastened and he was made ready for departure , the prince for the first time seemed ill-at-ease — as if only then did he sense the poignancy of the moment and was after all loath to go . |
| 2 | Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt 's excellent book , The Bomber Command War Diaries tell us that on the night of 23/24 September Bomber Command for the first time concentrated its main bomber strength on one city — Berlin . |
| 3 | As she returned the firm handclasp Lindsey 's smiling gaze for the first time took in the neat , wide-belted white dress , topped by a dark cardigan . |
| 4 | In 1889 the Prevention of Cruelty and Protection of Children Act for the first time outlawed proven cruelty to children and allowed children in certain circumstances to be removed from their families to a place of safety , usually a charitable institution such as Barnardo 's . |
| 5 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 6 | Once the last post had been played two thousand eyes closed , as soldiers under canvas for the first time tried to sleep . |
| 7 | The year 1966 was when the number of people paying a TV licence for the first time exceeded the number paying a radio licence . |
| 8 | During the last week of August the Soviet Union for the first time allowed parties of Japanese to visit family graves on the island of Etorofu , the largest and militarily the most sensitive of the Northern Territories ( the Soviet Union was believed to have a division of ground troops and a squadron of MiG-23 fighter aircraft based there ) . |
| 9 | On March 18 , the United Kingdom government for the first time gave permission for 375 relatives of Argentinian soldiers killed in the 1982 Falklands war to visit their graves on the islands . |
| 10 | Indeed , none of the candidates sitting their referral for the first time passed . |
| 11 | On Feb. 6 the World Bank for the first time made major loans to Poland for structural adjustment purposes , totalling $360,000,000 , while indicating that loans in the pipeline could total five times that amount in 1990 . |
| 12 | In Barcelona and other localities the PSOE would need the IU as a coalition partner , while the PP for the first time won an overall majority in the city of Madrid . |
| 13 | There was little change in relations with the United States , although in May 1990 the North for the first time handed over the remains of US servicemen missing in action from the Korean War [ see p. 37456 ; see also p. 38295 ] . |
| 14 | Ana for the first time showed frustration at not being able to see . |