Example sentences of "[noun] and the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ely , ’ I said ( that was her name and the first time I 'd ever used it ) , ‘ I want to be free . ’ |
| 2 | It was one of the most marvellous events of my life and the first time that any of my work had ever been put on public show . |
| 3 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I just knew it was sight at first love . |
| 4 | It was the fourth rise in German interest rates this year and the first time for several years that they have risen by a full percentage point . |
| 5 | It knew the nights when I was more drunk than others and the first time that I turned my back . ’ |
| 6 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |
| 7 | It was the first time the Communicator of the Year presentation had left London and the first time it had been staged as part of the annual convention . |
| 8 | And the gun-room and the first time he went in there with Adam . |