Example sentences of "for the first time i [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | For the first time I realized that Celia would know all about me from my letters to Aunt Louise . |
2 | For the first time I realized the humiliating narrowness of mind with which one has to be equipped in time of war . |
3 | The sun beat into the sedan , and not for the first time I questioned the desirability of our climate as applied to automobile drivers . |
4 | When I saw Jekub for the first time I thought , OK , this is what he used . ’ |
5 | For the first time I met Jeremy 's father , who had just arrived from America , and together we went in to see the body . |
6 | And for the first time I began to think of rewriting Peter Pan in a fresh and different way . |
7 | ‘ For the first time I began to wonder about the camp and the people I should find inside it . |
8 | There had still been nothing of that kind from John 's kidnappers and for the first time I began to have serious doubts about whether he was alive ; I began to feel less sure of it deep inside , where it mattered . |
9 | For the first time I began to recognize the power of the forces that Laura was summoning to her need . |
10 | It was a chilly evening when I left London via Paddington for Bedford , and for the first time I saw signs of panic . |
11 | For the first time I saw not a vague pink blob but an exquisite , fragile , jewel-like object . |
12 | For the first time I saw clearly that it would be impossible to go through the rest of my life with a barrier in my mind between the baby and its conception . |
13 | ‘ For the first time I saw fear creeping in at Grimsby , ’ he said . |
14 | For the first time I noticed the brothers ' yarmulkes in the somewhat subdued light of the boardroom , plain black skullcaps blending in with the pale glow of the room . |
15 | For the first time I had to tell my story logically , and the effort which this entailed , under the critical questioning of the Inspector , dispelled some of the depression which I felt . |
16 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
17 | For the first time I refused to provide him with the refuge he so obviously wanted and the uncritical comfort that he craved . |
18 | ‘ For the first time I refused to do as I was told . |
19 | Then he went on — ‘ Here for the first time I talked about our country with a white Rhodesian . |
20 | As my one hundred and eighty-nine pounds in their six feet frame laboured up behind him , not for the first time I smiled , remembering the advice of the South American Handbook to ‘ try and look as little like a tourist as possible ’ . |
21 | It was a terrible disappointment , my heart sank as for the first time I detected a stiffness in Leo 's voice . |