Example sentences of "and for [art] first time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He met the descendants of Lascar seamen or other immigrants who settled into Liverpool and for the first time saw the need for justice to an immigrant community . |
| 2 | Despite Kipling 's dictum that " Never the twain shall meet " , the East had reached out and touched the West with a premonition , perhaps , of the planetary holism which was to grip our minds less than a century later when we walked on the moon , looked back , and for the first time saw the whole earth rising as a single bubble of life . |
| 3 | Aloud he said , ‘ Is Fergus completely lost to us ? ’ and for the first time saw the golden-eyed creature hesitate . |
| 4 | Dunlop refused and for the first time revealed that he considered himself to be the sole owner of the horse . |
| 5 | She thought suddenly that she had taken Dr Neil for granted , that she had not fully realised either his hard work or his dedication , and for the first time understood the impulse which had caused him to leave the cushioned life of a younger son of a good family and become an East End doctor instead . |
| 6 | He nodded , and for the first time paused and looked into her eyes . |
| 7 | Mine Host Norman raised his glass of Highland Park whisky yesterday and for the first time managed to raise a smile from the assembled guests . |
| 8 | She accepted a glass of water and for the first time looked round in order to take in the room and the people before her . |
| 9 | Shamlou stood before her , and for the first time looked properly at his victim . |
| 10 | During the Seventies , in my Lovin' Spoonful London Hippie period , I favoured tiny , blue-tinted , gold-rimmed Lennon specs like everyone else — and for the first time felt utterly at peace ( man ) with my bespectacled self . |
| 11 | It was , however , his permanent design of the deceptively simple 1920 Whitehall Cenotaph ( originally erected in wood and plaster as a saluting point for the Victory March Past of Allied troops in July 1919 ) that put him in the eye of the general public and for the first time turned Lutyens into a household name . |