Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] time [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started to smile , teasing me , and for the second time I was convinced that someone would flourish it back to existence , that it was all only a game . |
| 2 | For the first time they were not photographed together for the cards . |
| 3 | For the first time we are trying to preserve the historical integrity of the carvings . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ For the first time we 're a little bit on the sidelines and in some ways this will make the Government 's standpoint a bit stronger , ’ reckons Kern . |
| 5 | Since the , that methodology tells us that although employment has been cut erm in the first quarter of this year on our calcul er calculations in many regions of the economy with the south east particularly hard hit well in one region , the West Midlands , for the first time we 're seeing an increase in employment . |
| 6 | Last year for the first time we were charged £10.58 for an audit certificate — something District Audit assure me takes a few minutes to complete and is provided free of charge by most banks . |
| 7 | This year it has an improved range which again highlights the benefits of Torsion technology , although for the first time it 's combined with injected EVA , rather than firmer PU which turned some runners away . |
| 8 | When you 're 15 and working in an office for the first time it is a new world and a big challenge — especially when all your colleagues are speaking a foreign language . |
| 9 | The advent of the new political regime changed this ; for the first time it was possible to conceive of a legal order which rested on a basis different from that of the civil law . |
| 10 | Last year also for the first time it was televised by Yorkshire Television . |
| 11 | When I took Jack [ Rosenthal ] home for the first time it was my parents ' silver wedding anniversary . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For the first time it was me who provoked the break in a relationship . |
| 14 | For the first time he was proud of them . |
| 15 | Then he realised that for the first time he was looking into the front of a hurricane . |
| 16 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |
| 17 | For the first time he was tempted to commit scientific adultery . |
| 18 | Or , maybe for the first time I am standing there looking vulnerable . |
| 19 | For the first time I was free of obligation or responsibility . |
| 20 | Now , while as if bestowing some order of merit she fastened the beads round my neck , her face wore a motherly expression and for the first time I was with the Aunt Louise of my childhood . |
| 21 | For the first time I was in touch with my deepest emotions . |
| 22 | Tonight for the first time I was deeply worried after seeing the pictures of the attack on a civilian shelter . |
| 23 | You know , for the first time you 're really under my control , are n't you ? |
| 24 | Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul . |
| 25 | But today for the first time she was certain that even in Paul 's presence she would find the courage to say what she wanted , what she really wanted , in the depth of her soul ; she was certain that she would find this courage even at the price of ruining everything between them . |
| 26 | But as the runners made round the left-hand bend in front of the stands and set off into the country for the first time she was joined in the lead by Run And Skip , and the company clearly put her off , for she hit the third fence hard . |
| 27 | For the first time she was really listening , not going through the motions of an argument . |
| 28 | Now for the first time she was face to face with fragmented suggestions of reality , distorted perhaps , like the sun glancing on water , but hinting at something very different from the fairy tale princess the child Harriet had claimed as her own . |
| 29 | Now here for the first time she was fighting her own battle . |
| 30 | A muscle twitched in his cheek , and for the first time she was aware of his tension . |