Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 2 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 3 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 4 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 5 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
| 6 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |