Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 2 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 3 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 4 | In April 1989 a " law on individual rights " was approved which for the first time explicitly recognized the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 5 | Flavia Sherman had elected to spend the day shopping on the Rue Catinat and was to join them for the first hunt next morning . |