Example sentences of "[noun sg] the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one thing , this new record hits you straight at gut level the first time . |
| 2 | It did sting me a bit the first time I used it but has n't since . |
| 3 | It is when this mass of dancers divides and moves to the sides that the open space available for dancing is exposed fur the first time . |
| 4 | LIFESPAN RDBI will encrypt this password the first time the data transfer program is run . |
| 5 | Will you let me go again on the basis I made a cock-up the first time round . |
| 6 | The name of the local pub , Live and Let Live , seemed like a good omen the first time she drove past it . |
| 7 | The problem had been that there was no ceremony the first time around . |
| 8 | She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her . |
| 9 | Dougal was so cold that he dropped the key the first time he put it in the lock . |
| 10 | I would not expect an angler to hit , or even see , every bite he has on a swing-tip the first time he uses one . |
| 11 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 12 | Chances are I will be able to help you with other topics , so do n't be put off writing again because I was no help the first time . |
| 13 | Certainly , a low ‘ g ’ sensitive person is liable to become completely incapable of further thought once the aircraft pitches nose-down the first time . |
| 14 | It could n't have been anything else but Dad had put out the best wood the first time ; some of the rest was rotten . |
| 15 | The take-over the first time a South African bank has bought a British bank values Ansbacher at £57.8m . |
| 16 | ‘ I fell in love with this place the first time I saw it . |
| 17 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |
| 18 | Placement support which at the least minimised the chances that the ex-patient would be evicted from his home or sacked from his job the first time a problem occurred would seem essential . |
| 19 | With each attack , it is as if they are meeting the distasteful animal tor the first time . |
| 20 | I actually had to curtail part of the business the first time . |
| 21 | If your program needs to find an empty string the first time it is used , you can subsequently assign a null string to it . |
| 22 | And if you happen to be too young to remember rock'n'roll the first time around , this is the perfect way to discover what all the fuss was about ! |
| 23 | You reply at once if you get the meaning the first time ( ‘ Did you get wet ? |
| 24 | Rachel remembers walking into school assembly the first time , after everybody had found out : |
| 25 | Hatton got knocked on the head the first time but the second time he was n't hurt , only tied up . ’ |
| 26 | Everyone forms some sort of impression of a person the first time that they meet . |
| 27 | He had been in the boot the first time , and masked on the floor of the back seat the second . |
| 28 | It is to my knowledge the first time that an ‘ in-depth ’ feature has been written about their service with the RAF and brought back many poignant memories for me for I was , to quote your September issue , ‘ one of the batch of National Service gunners posted to RAF Coningsby ’ . |
| 29 | I 've just spent six months in Cottonvale and I mean its degrading , I mean cos your locked up in a cell from eight o'clock at night till six o'clock in the morning and your not got any toilet facilities you 've got to use a potty if you want to go to the toilet and it is degrading , I mean there 's people in there , well I was a first offender the first time I was in , but I mean there 's people in there seventeen year old that have n't a clue about life in general and it is degrading for them . |
| 30 | ‘ I have made up my own mind where I want to go and I spoke to Frank Clark this morning the first time for a fortnight . |