Example sentences of "and [pron] [be] the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's the first time since you 're . |
| 2 | Now I mentioned that this was Chest Week and it 's the first time that the er Chest , Heart and Stroke Association have had a , a , a week specifically aimed at people with chest problems , or , or looking at chest problems . |
| 3 | Yesterday 's bombs are thought to have been Semtex and it is the first time outside the capital that devices have been casually placed by the road side . |
| 4 | The meeting was held in Harvey Haddon Stadium in Nottingham , and it was the first time that I had ever been on an Inter-City train . |
| 5 | Simon said , and it was the first time she had heard that name . |
| 6 | " He does n't like me very much , " I explained , and it was the first time I 'd ever realized that " It was a very sad thing not to be liked by your own father , and obviously it must be just as sad not to like your only daughter . |
| 7 | ‘ We made it up between us , ’ she said , ‘ and it was the first time ever we two met outside these walls . |
| 8 | Prior Robert , still stonily silent and shocked out of his normal studied dignity , led away his shattered clerk to the second of the two penitentiary cells ; and it was the first time , as far as Cadfael could recall , that the two had ever been occupied at the same time . |
| 9 | I thought it was interesting as well that the stuff I got from the I and R V with it , was a lot about audio description and the tape and how much it cost and how wonderful this was and it was the first time it had ever been done , but there was nothing , as is always the case , there was nothing actually about what the film was about , it was full of sort of , this is the first time it 's done , but nothing about sort of this is the film about , about this , this is what the story 's about , you know . |
| 10 | ‘ It was Sheena Hawthorne , and it was the first time we had set eyes on each other for 50 years , ’ Betty says . |
| 11 | ‘ The rallies were a spontaneous reaction to the troubles of the time and it was the first time there had been any movement like it in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | ‘ I first came across Virginia Woolf through Orlando when I was a teenage person and it was the first time that I felt really addressed by a writer , ’ she says . |
| 13 | I once conducted a major European orchestra , a German orchestra , and I conducted the introduction Allegro of Elgar and it was the first time they 'd ever , ever played any Elgar , and they did n't like the piece . |