Example sentences of "from the first time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the most addictive drug ever — many become addicted from the first time they use it . |
| 2 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 3 | We really felt at home here from the first time we came . |
| 4 | Women are so utterly used to working with their own bodies : we are trained to do so from the first time we wear pink-for-a-girl , and a concentration upon the significations of our physicality is encouraged to a far greater extent than is the case with boys and men . |
| 5 | ‘ Did n't you guess , my beautiful idiot , that I 've been crazy about you from the first time I saw you standing outside your hotel bedroom in France ? ’ |
| 6 | They were like that from the first time I met them . ’ |