Example sentences of "[adv] for the first [noun] [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 So for the first activity you 'll need to be in twos or threes .
3 Thus for the first portfolio we have .
4 Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss .
5 Tonight for the first time I was deeply worried after seeing the pictures of the attack on a civilian shelter .
6 When I took Jack [ Rosenthal ] home for the first time it was my parents ' silver wedding anniversary .
7 Last year also for the first time it was televised by Yorkshire Television .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Now for the first time he touched her skin , the skin of her forehead , with his fingertips .
12 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 .
13 But now for the first time she recognised the chill of fear .
14 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 .
15 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 ’ .
16 Then he went on — ‘ Here for the first time I talked about our country with a white Rhodesian .
17 Now here for the first time she was fighting her own battle .
18 Or , maybe for the first time I am standing there looking vulnerable .
19 I do believe that then for the first time it dawned on people that Northern Ireland was a series of Catholic and Protestant ghettoes .
20 Then for the first time he noticed how much noise the rats were making .
21 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 .
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