Example sentences of "[pers pn] for the first time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment . |
| 2 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 3 | This majestic sight , glimpsed through undulating woldland patchwork , or from the flatter marshland , entices all strangers who behold it for the first time to come and investigate the town further ; to discover its rich history and its modern enchantment . |
| 4 | The Economic League report on The Present Trend of Communism in Britain alleged that " the Communist Party has made full use of the Left Book Club , enabling it for the first time to make effective contact with some 50,000 members of the middle class " . |
| 5 | Finn 's Hotel will enable us for the first time to approach the encyclopedic Finnegans Wake with a true and not misleading knowledge of its origins and of the prototypes of its protagonists . |