Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 2 | on quite a few occasions , Windows ran until the first time I rebooted the computer . |
| 3 | With the widespread translation of Early Irish stories into English around the turn of the century a younger generation of Irishmen and women discovered for the first time a fresh and potent source of images to define their sense of nationality . |
| 4 | On the seventh of September the clouds broke for the first time , the wind subsided , and the sun came out . |
| 5 | So far as more academic scholarship was concerned , the Nag Hammadi Scrolls appeared for the first time in English translation in 1977 , and within two years had inspired Elaine Pagels ' best-seller The Gnostic Gospels . |