Example sentences of "the first time [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Running for the first time for his new trainer , Mighty Mogul easily brushed aside Kaytak over an extended two miles at Newbury last month . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Reporting for the first time on its environmental emissions , the UK subsidiary of Swiss chemicals and drugs giant Ciba-Geigy says it increased the amount of waste it incinerated in 1991 while reducing the amount sent for landfill . |
| 6 | So when [ named defendant ] , 41 , made sexual overtures for the first time during their five-year friendship she went to a neighbour and cried rape . |
| 7 | Liverpool 's defeat , which threatens to prevent them finishing in the top five for the first time since their initial season back in the First Division 30 years ago , was again due to the unpredictable goalkeeping of Grobbelaar . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And students are , after all , adults , with many entering higher education for the first time in their middle age , or even beyond . |
| 11 | For the first time in their four-year history the awards will have a regional stage ; the winners of which will then have a chance to win one of nine national awards in London on November 17 . |
| 12 | North-East football joined in the celebrations with Newcastle United victorious at Leicester City ending any lingering doubts they might drop into the Third Division for the first time in their illustrious history . |
| 13 | There were whole companies of white-trash , clean for the first time in their whole lives , and bands of black niggers in white robes , and battalions of freaks and lunatics shouting and clapping and leaping like frogs . |
| 14 | Two extreme right parties gained representation for the first time in their respective Länder , the Republicans ( led by Franz Schönhuber ) in Baden-Württemberg and the neo-Nazi German People 's Union ( DVU ) ( led by Gerhard Frey ) in Schleswig-Holstein . |
| 15 | Chesarynth felt conspicuous ; people around were staring at them , but it was the first time in her weary day 's travel that she had seen a box and it called to the echoes of firesong that the one on the Moon had left in her mind . |
| 16 | finally , a new political awareness was making Colonial populations more than ever critical of their relationship with the metropolis , Britain , for the first time in her modern Imperial history , was literally unable to deliver the goods . |
| 17 | She plans to defy the party whip for the first time in her political career . |
| 18 | 3440 is seen on June 1st upon arrival at Walker Lines Junction , Bodmin , after hauling a commercial freight train for the first time in her recent if not whole of her 60 year preservation career . |
| 19 | For the first time in her professional career as a soloist she is forsaking the large concert venues to take her music to some of the remoter parts of Scotland in a tour being sponsored by British Telecom . |
| 20 | For the first time in her young life , she was having her backside well and truly corked . |
| 21 | Our President , Lady Braithwaite , appearing in public for the first time in her new role , was warmly greeted , and during the afternoon she drew the first lucky winners of our 200 Club , a most important new venture to raise badly needed funds for the Society . |
| 22 | For the first time in her married life she saw pain in her husband 's eyes , as though she had plunged a knife into his body . |
| 23 | By now she was really yelling , letting her natural feelings show for perhaps the first time in her conscious life . |
| 24 | A hundred yards out Dillon drew his whip and Pretty Polly was hit for the first time in her racing career , but it was no good . |
| 25 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 26 | Powering up The Needles lighthouse is being connected with mains electricity for the first time in its 134-year history . |
| 27 | As a result in February 1990 the World Federation for Mental Health — for the first time in its 40-year history — made a submission to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva , arraigning an individual country for abusing the human rights of mentally ill people . |
| 28 | The Lloyd 's insurance market opened for trade on a Sunday for the first time in its 300-year history . |
| 29 | Mr Rowland and his chief executive , Peter Middleton , want to run Lloyd 's as a business , for the first time in its 300-year history . |
| 30 | The eventual confirmation of Thomas , who succeeded black justice Thurgood Marshall , meant that the nine-member Supreme Court would be without a single liberal member for the first time in its modern history . |