Example sentences of "[adv] for the [adj] 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 | As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs . |
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 | When I took Jack [ Rosenthal ] home for the first time it was my parents ' silver wedding anniversary . |
6 | Last year also for the first time it was televised by Yorkshire Television . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Now for the first time he touched her skin , the skin of her forehead , with his fingertips . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | But now for the first time she recognised the chill of fear . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 ’ . |
15 | Then he went on — ‘ Here for the first time I talked about our country with a white Rhodesian . |
16 | Now here for the first time she was fighting her own battle . |
17 | Or , maybe for the first time I am standing there looking vulnerable . |
18 | I do believe that then for the first time it dawned on people that Northern Ireland was a series of Catholic and Protestant ghettoes . |
19 | Then for the first time he noticed how much noise the rats were making . |
20 | 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 . |