Example sentences of "the first time [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 2 | Running for the first time for his new trainer , Mighty Mogul easily brushed aside Kaytak over an extended two miles at Newbury last month . |
| 3 | King Hussein delivered a televised speech to the nation on Nov. 5 in which he spoke publicly for the first time about his recent cancer surgery in the United States [ see p. 39118 ] , announcing that he would have to undergo further tests in the USA . |
| 4 | THIS IS Mould , for the first time since his epic ‘ Workbook ’ album , recapturing the sense of the definitive : the last word in love songs and the full stop after heartbreak . |
| 5 | It was day three when I started to haemorrhage and Lee cried for the first time since his brief squawk at the moment of birth . |
| 6 | FORMER England goalkeeper Peter Shilton was sent off last night for the first time in his long career . |
| 7 | For the first time in his over-confident reign , Souness looked lost . |
| 8 | Eight months earlier he made an abortive attempt for the title , then held by the Frenchman Franck Nicotra , only to be stopped for the first time in his professional career . |
| 9 | The match has added significance in that Stephen Martin plays against his Irish team-mates for the first time in his illustrious career . |
| 10 | Though he recalled once scoring a hat-trick for Toronto Blizzard , Nicholl 's two goals against Dunfermline marked the first time in his senior career that the Irishman had notched a double in top-class football . |
| 11 | They had the chances against Linfield in the first half , and both Michael O'Hagan and Martin McGaughey , playing for the first time against his old club , went close . |
| 12 | At the beginning of December a Time-CNN poll gave his approval rating as 46 per cent , the first time throughout his entire presidency that it had fallen below 50 per cent . |