Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] time [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at Lovell 's dinner-table that Coleridge eventually found Southey , and there for the first time that he met Lovell 's wife Mary and her eldest sister Sarah Fricker . |
| 2 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |
| 3 | And now , as he entered Lady Ursula Berowne 's sitting room , Dalgliesh felt for the first time that he was in a private house , that this was a room which the owner had made peculiarly her own . |
| 4 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 5 | On finishing it , had she realized for the first time that he meant to kill her ? |
| 6 | She noticed for the first time that he was wearing a pair of white , glowing incongruously in the twilight . |
| 7 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |
| 8 | He also publicly acknowledged for the first time that he was a recovering " drug addict " who had behaved in a " degrading and outrageous " way . |
| 9 | In doing so , however , he admitted for the first time that he had made " every effort " to obtain the release of the hostages . |
| 10 | On March 18 Najibullah formally announced for the first time that he was prepared to resign to further the progress of a UN peace plan , the initial aim of which was to establish an interim , all-party government [ see p. 38811 ] . |
| 11 | She noticed for the first time that he had a slight limp . |
| 12 | Again , he was teaching in London for the first time although he had taught before : |
| 13 | For the first time since he became leader , he is in the position to set the political agenda . |
| 14 | More immediately delightful , she saw Nelson Mandela , an intimate friend of her youth , for the first time since he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 . |
| 15 | For the first time since he was a professor at Cambridge , he began to hope , though with modesty , that he might be chosen for the work . |
| 16 | Returning to Moscow at the age of 52 , for the first time since he left to live in London 26 years ago , Ashkenazy said : ‘ In my modest way , I thought I could endorse what 's happening in my country . ’ |
| 17 | Tug opened his mouth automatically , but for the first time since he had been there , he let the words go unsaid . |
| 18 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
| 19 | Everyone , I am sure , will have been delighted to see Sandy Lyle making the cut for the first time since he won in 1988 . |
| 20 | She came last to Lachlan , and for the first time since he had startled her raised her head to look him in the face . |
| 21 | Allen spoke for the first time since he had joined them . |
| 22 | The silver-framed photograph of Philippe Chaumont had appeared for the first time since he had known Chantal . |
| 23 | On Saturday I sat there watching his team lose at home to Chelsea and listening to an Australian Evertonian who was back at Goodison for the first time since he emigrated in 1985 . |
| 24 | Happy ‘ I 'm happy now , really , for the first time since he died . |
| 25 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 26 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 27 | So when it seemed the conversation was nearly over and , for the first time since he had known her , she appeared to have called for no reason , he was almost relieved to hear her ask , ‘ Now then , David , have you heard from him ? ’ |
| 28 | Mach looked up again , smiling for the first time since he had entered the room . |
| 29 | Last night , for the first time since he had married Fei Yen , he had summoned a woman to his bed — one of the serving girls from the kitchens — purging himself of the need that had raged in his blood like a poison . |
| 30 | For the first time since he had told her about Carol , Helen found that she could think about Adrian with something like calm . |