Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] for the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
2 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
3 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
4 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
5 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
6 | ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time . |
7 | Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger . |
8 | I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek . |
9 | He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time . |
10 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
11 | Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives . |
12 | One of the original group , Crest Homes , has now decided to go it alone for the first stage of the project . |
13 | Seeing it yesterday for the first time , she had reflected that great tact would have to be employed for two women to share quarters this size . |
14 | And it 's been such a relief to be able to speak about it openly for the first time . |
15 | Have it there for the first month or something . |
16 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |