Example sentences of "for the first [conj] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first and only time , the audience applauded . |
| 2 | We played The Marquee for the first and only time supporting Eddie And The Hot Rods . |
| 3 | For the first and only time on the journey , posters , shop signs and street names meant nothing to me . |
| 4 | With a few very distinguished exceptions , the skiing is on the easy side , well suited to beginners who can enjoy the scenic and economic advantages of a single two bar hamlet for the first and only time . |
| 5 | But three minutes after the interval Leeds skipper Ellery Hanley took Schofield 's short pass to spin out of a tackle and go over for the try , goaled by Gallagher , which put Leeds in front for the first and only time in the game . |
| 6 | AUSTRALIA clinched the series at Adelaide , but their path to a winning , 3–0 lead was obstructed by an excellent performance from India , whose captain Mohammad Azharuddin waited until the exciting last day before exhibiting his undoubted skills with the bat for the first and only time in the series . |
| 7 | He walks beyond fatigue , beyond the limits of endurance and the frontiers of self , and somewhere along this path he loses his balance , falls off the edge of his sanity , and out here beyond his mind 's rim he sees , for the first and only time in his life , a vision . |
| 8 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 9 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 10 | Molla Gurani 's as kazasker ( an enlargement is given on p. 50 of the plates in Unver ) , for example , can not have been added before 845 , when he first came to the Ottoman lands , and was almost certainly added after 855 , when he held the kazaskerlik probably for the first and only time ( cf. below , pp. 169–71 ) , so that one can not be certain of the date when , or the circumstances in which , any of them was added . |
| 11 | When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate , for the first and only time , and from that fiery union new turtles would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds . |