Example sentences of "that i [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |
3 | And I believe it was then , looking on that view , that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me . |
4 | I began to despair in the local press I noticed an advert for an evening class , cookery for men being the young one in the family I plucked up courage and enrolled but it was great , with great apprehension that I went to the first class . |
5 | Jo Spence I think it was then I was ill that I understood for the first time what it was to be a victim . |
6 | It may be argued that this is essentially the approach that I used in the first chapter . |