Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] the first time " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 've known just what sort of a woman you are ever since the first time I was unfortunate enough to meet you — though I confess I did n't realise even you could stoop quite as low as you have this time . ’ |
2 | But there are twelve fewer non-North American galleries this year , and forty-two dealers nearly twenty-five per cent of the fair are here for the first time . |
3 | There was evidently no absolute labour shortage , if only because the reserve armies of the rural population ( at home and abroad ) were now for the first time advancing en masse upon the industrial labour markets . |
4 | ‘ That 's enough for the first time . ’ |
5 | " I was followed today — and it 's not for the first time , either . " |
6 | It was exactly like the first time . |
7 | They were undoubtedly used by the employers , and the strike was seized as a chance to bring them in — but it should be firmly stated here , since it is usually glossed over , that the damage to the strikers " cause was not for the first time , the result of actions by other men . |
8 | He was also for the first time vaguely troubled about the DIA 's priorities in the Middle East , particularly with respect to the Western hostages in Beirut . |
9 | Linford was there for the first time . |
10 | Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time . |
11 | This year , FOX F M was there for the first time and Phil Angel managed to catch Dr John Howard to explain what it all meant . |