Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] for [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 2 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 3 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
| 4 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 5 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |
| 6 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 7 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
| 8 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 9 | no , no , my Lord I have raised for the first time the board minute |
| 10 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |