Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 2 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 3 | Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period . |
| 4 | Susan came downstairs for the first time on Christmas Eve , and was genuinely delighted to see how pretty Breeze had made the sombre old dining-room . |
| 5 | At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time . |
| 6 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 7 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 8 | On Oct. 25-27 the African National Congress ( ANC ) and the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC — which had split from the ANC in 1959 — see p. 17449 ) , acted together for the first time since 1960 to become part of the Patriotic Front , an initiative launched to create a united front in negotiations with the Pretoria government . |
| 9 | It was The Association of Women Artists and Friends of Art in Berlin , an association of women artists , who banded together for the first time on 13 January , 1867 , to overcome some of the structural obstacles to women artists . |
| 10 | At a press conference held on April 30 Lee acknowledged officially for the first time the existence of a CCP-led government in Beijing . |
| 11 | The Chief of Staff of the Air Force , Vice-Marshal Momtazuddin Ahmed , confirmed publicly for the first time on May 10 the claim made eight days earlier by the head of the opposition Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajed that there had been extensive damage to the country 's small fleet of aircraft . |
| 12 | Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears . |
| 13 | To all of them , Fry is Barnet , and without him there , few will have good reason to stay at Underhill , particularly as they alleged publicly for the first time yesterday that chairman Stan Flashman had physically threatened them . |
| 14 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 15 | Its mouth curled upwards for the first time . |
| 16 | And as the afternoon wore on , she relaxed and talked freely for the first time in weeks . |
| 17 | New national research , revealed here for the first time , shows that less than one in five local authorities across the UK have internal guidelines for social workers on dealing with elder abuse . |
| 18 | More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time . |
| 19 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
| 20 | THE new crew of that colourful Clyde puffer , the Vital Spark , gathered yesterday for the first time aboard the vessel made famous in the Neil Munro tales . |
| 21 | I went yesterday for the first time . |
| 22 | And all I could do at this terrible invasion was to rise and stand mutely , with my hands by my sides , staring up at this tremendous being — whom I now saw clearly for the first time . |
| 23 | Sheldukher laughed heartily for the first time since his destruction of the Krondel constellation . |
| 24 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 25 | In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor . |
| 26 | But on 69 minutes Apoel went ahead for the first time in the entire tie and it was to prove decisive , Christodoulous Pounas curling his corner into the far corner of the net . |
| 27 | It was at this point that Mrs Crumwallis spoke aloud for the first time . |
| 28 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 29 | He smiled then for the first time , and the smile lightened his face to a sudden , vivid charm . |
| 30 | STANDING in the doorway of his neat £40,000 home in a secluded cul-de-sac in Brandon , Father John Butler spoke publicly for the first time . |