Example sentences of "[vb past] for [art] [adj] time [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married . |
| 2 | Speechless , she glared at him , then felt the colour start back to her cheeks as she realised for the first time what he was dressed in , which was very little indeed . |
| 3 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |
| 4 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 5 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 6 | Anyway Rick spent what seemed like an eternity before he got the fish near the net but when it showed for the first time it soon became apparent why it had been so stubborn , the fish was massive ! |
| 7 | They saw for the first time what was to become a regular and tragic sequence of events : a dramatic response to the first treatment , a lesser one to a second , and in the end delayed death from a condition which had become as resistant to drugs as it was to radiation therapy . |
| 8 | Jo Spence I think it was then I was ill that I understood for the first time what it was to be a victim . |
| 9 | I learned for the first time what it was to be a stranger , an immigrant from primitive parts who spoke with a funny accent and called things by their wrong names . |
| 10 | Her voice acquired a jeering note , not unfamiliar to Roland , who wondered for the first time what his mother had been like before her disappointment , which in her case was his father and to some extent himself . |
| 11 | Jinny wondered for the hundredth time what it was like to be in a family which sat up and watched the television of an evening . |
| 12 | The contractions stopped and I wondered for the hundredth time what my son would look like . |