Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the first time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps for the first time he felt something akin to Eliza 's feelings , as he watched his boxes and bottles winched aboard ship and slowly disappear over the horizon . |
| 2 | Women are so utterly used to working with their own bodies : we are trained to do so from the first time we wear pink-for-a-girl , and a concentration upon the significations of our physicality is encouraged to a far greater extent than is the case with boys and men . |
| 3 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |
| 4 | Tonight for the first time I was deeply worried after seeing the pictures of the attack on a civilian shelter . |
| 5 | You can almost tell just from the first time they 're doing their marking . |
| 6 | When I took Jack [ Rosenthal ] home for the first time it was my parents ' silver wedding anniversary . |
| 7 | Ace had been giving her conflicting messages ever since the first time they 'd met again outside her bedroom door in France . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been crazy about him ever since the first time I saw him . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've known just what sort of a woman you are ever since the first time I was unfortunate enough to meet you — though I confess I did n't realise even you could stoop quite as low as you have this time . ’ |
| 10 | Ever since the first time she had seen the Hare-woman standing in the Post Office , staring with her luminous eyes as she told one lie after another , she had known that there was something wrong about her . |
| 11 | ‘ I have always wanted to do it ever since the first time you took me to see it when I was young . ’ |
| 12 | Last year also for the first time it was televised by Yorkshire Television . |
| 13 | It 's been a four-hour journey for Fiona and David , now for the first time they meet the competition and hopefully make new friends . |
| 14 | British Champion Colin McRae pushing everything to the limits … it requires rapid changes through the gear box … even when cornering … now in the Banbury factory of Prodrive engineers have spent 18 months developing a semi-automatic gear box … they 're already becoming common in Formula One … now for the first time they 've been successfully introduced in a rally car … with just a touch of a button the driver can change gear without having to take his hand off the steering wheel . |
| 15 | Up to this moment he has always behaved as spontaneously as an animal , surrendering to appetite and vomiting ; now for the first time he makes a considered choice . |
| 16 | Now for the first time he touched her skin , the skin of her forehead , with his fingertips . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But now for the first time she recognised the chill of fear . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Here for the first time he found something of what the pilgrim on his bicycle had sought : ‘ the sense of mystery , and awe , and of another world at once far and near … a sense that we were vividly in the presence of the passion of Jesus and also vividly near to heaven , to which the passion mysteriously belonged , so as to be brought from the past to the present ’ . |
| 21 | Then he went on — ‘ Here for the first time I talked about our country with a white Rhodesian . |
| 22 | Now here for the first time she was fighting her own battle . |
| 23 | We really felt at home here from the first time we came . |
| 24 | Or , maybe for the first time I am standing there looking vulnerable . |
| 25 | I do believe that then for the first time it dawned on people that Northern Ireland was a series of Catholic and Protestant ghettoes . |
| 26 | Then for the first time he noticed how much noise the rats were making . |
| 27 | Here , almost for the first time I can remember on disc , his vibrato , relatively rapid and even , becomes distracting in sustained passages , which will trouble some ears more than others . |