Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [adj] time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
| 2 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 3 | Seventy boys and girls from U6 to U14 played rugby — most of them for the first time ever . |
| 4 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 5 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 6 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 7 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 8 | He looked at her for a moment as if seeing her for the first time then paused , giving the question serious thought . |
| 9 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
| 10 | When he took the stage to collect the award ( winning it for the second time following two years of Vivienne Westwood ) , Ozbek did n't stand a chance . |
| 11 | As hard as Marshall try to convey the message of versatility in this type of combo , I defy anyone who plugs into it for the first time not to go straight for the overdrive sounds : ‘ If it 's a Marshall then it 's going to rock , whether it wants to or not ! ’ |
| 12 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 13 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 14 | this morning when , where we all watched it for the first time together and as , as Richard said you know , I 'm , I 'm squeamish about going to the dentist , so , and it cos er , it 's basically there 's a scene in the bar where they 're pulling this guy 's tooth out |
| 15 | And then do it on the first time well if he wanted , he do n't have to go . |
| 16 | It was urged , on the one hand , that public opinion was not yet ready for the abolition of capital punishment and that it would be particularly unwise to abolish it at the present time when there was an abnormal amount of robbery with violence . |
| 17 | But I ca n't afford to get it at the same time anyway cos he he wo n't be down |
| 18 | if any of them relate to a procedure we take it at the same time so that we do n't have to do it again , or not ? |