Example sentences of "[noun] the first time [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 It did sting me a bit the first time I used it but has n't since .
2 You know , Shelley , I suspected there was something between you and Rafaelo the first time I talked to him .
3 The name of the local pub , Live and Let Live , seemed like a good omen the first time she drove past it .
4 IAN WRIGHT and Andy Gray hardly exchanged pleasantries the first time they met .
5 Dougal was so cold that he dropped the key the first time he put it in the lock .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 I fell madly in love with this area of Scotland the first time I set eyes on it , and subsequently crawled all over it for years , marvelling at how many caves Bonnie Prince Charlie managed to occupy in his escape from the Redcoats .
9 T. D. The first time I saw a football was when a caseball hit a horse in the face , and the horse reared up .
10 ‘ I fell in love with this place the first time I saw it .
11 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 .
12 If your program needs to find an empty string the first time it is used , you can subsequently assign a null string to it .
13 He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money !
14 The other thing that tends to throw people the first time they every do ad advocacy is that you 're going to talk to somebody who will not talk to you , who will not s possibly even smile at you , who wo n't give you the usual feedback that we 're u that we 're used to when we 're talking to someone .
15 In the early days there was no cure and it killed AIDS patients the first time they got it .
16 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 .
17 ‘ You called me a dog the first time you saw me , ’ he said .
18 ‘ Faber would not be for sale even at the right price , ’ commented Matthew Evans a touch wearily — this being by no means the first time he has had to deny such rumours .
19 After a while you get when you first start the first time you ever ride a two wheeler and you have someone holding it or you have some stabilizers on till you know what you 're doing .
20 This is a splendid opportunity to enjoy the fantastic visibility from the Trislander 's big windows , for many passengers the first time they have really had much of a view from an aircraft .
21 ‘ Dustin made extraordinary sense the first time he ever read the script .
22 My jaw was on the carriage floor the first time I took the train to Mallaig .
23 Felt guilty as hell the first time I went on there !
24 He 'd got your number the first time we met .
25 ‘ I set your name up on the account the first time we met .
26 I also told her that there was no guarantee that she would come up with the answer the first time she was regressed , as this would be a new experience for her and her ever-protective subconscious would not want her to be upset in any way .
27 Quite clearly you ca n't roll the dice the first time you win .
28 Most children reject new foods the first time they are offered , but if your child clearly finds the food disagreeable , even after trying it three or four times , then do n't serve it up again .
29 From Desmond Morton 's point of view , Edward struck gold the first time he had a proper conversation with Frank Foley .
30 It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness .
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