Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] for [art] first " in BNC.

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1 None of this was her affair , she told herself not for the first time .
2 That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation .
3 They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago .
4 He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders .
5 The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time .
6 Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time .
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