Example sentences of "[conj] the first time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It went into your jotter , your jotter was handed in on the Monday morning , or the first time you went to the eng the English class and the teacher was his name , he went over that and if you 'd missed out a comma , you see or a full stop or anything like that . |
| 2 | ‘ Y-you asked me that the first time we met . ’ |
| 3 | so you would actually be talking to economists , lawyers and accountants , and very often you had a feeling that the first time they had come together to talk to each other was when the CNAA arrived . |
| 4 | I knew that the first time she mentioned it . |
| 5 | Well , three nuts spat me out and I can honestly say that the first time I fell , headfirst , facing outwards , above the wall we had just climbed , I really did see stars . |
| 6 | I remember that the first time I came to Semer Water was as a boy on my bike . |
| 7 | It 's just that the first time it happens , especially if you are used to the more genteel reduction in power and revs of a Lycoming or a Continental when you throttle back , it does n't half make the old adrenalin start flowing . |
| 8 | He also liked to remind him that the first time he had seen him was during the military parade in Cairo to celebrate Kuhammad Rea 's marriage to Princes Fawzia in 1939 . " |
| 9 | The only problem is that the first time you do it for each project if it 's a ne if it 's a an old project , then we are going to have to put something in the field which summarizes the total remit for the whole of the group to date . |
| 10 | Something which is important to say is that the first time you have a contact with somebody and you do a piece , you 're , you 're meeting for the first time , it 's slightly awkward and you 're getting to know each other slightly , the second time you do it easier , it 's easier , and if you establish relationships with the local press , local radio and so forth , it gets easier and easier all the time , because by the time you get to know people , it 's not sort of ‘ Can I speak to somebody who does a programme about the morning whatever it is ? |
| 11 | They were , if that was possible , even more ferocious than the first time he had kissed her . |
| 12 | I was already enough of an expert to recognise it — people had begun to give me books about birds of prey , so the first time I heard this sorrowful sound I searched through my books until I found out what it was . |
| 13 | Cos the first time he was on Thursday last week . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ And the first time we performed it was a screamer , Miss Greene — what doom … and the second time I had not learned my part , not at all , and they said , ‘ If you are going to corpse continually … ’ ’ |
| 16 | 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 knew it was sight at first love . |
| 17 | I 'll tell you about Penny Lane , my tiniest youth , I was tiny , so tiny , too tiny to spit on , and my friend Chock who lived in the bathroom radiator , hissing low inside my head , shrivelling at the clink of my mother 's heels in the hallway , holding his breath , whispering , a lady is coming , dancing to the plaid of the bathroom tiles and to the records my father played ; and the first time we heard ‘ Penny Lane ’ , we knew we had heard it before . |
| 18 | He thought of Claire Fraser , and the first time they had met , at Brandon Manor in the heart of the Cotswolds . |
| 19 | It was August now , and the first time they had gone on holiday without him . |
| 20 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A funny thing for a gyno to say out of the blue — and the first time he 's ever looked me in the eye . |
| 23 | And the gun-room and the first time he went in there with Adam . |
| 24 | So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up . |
| 25 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 26 | Many of the records — ‘ pinched ’ from or discarded by his musical family — were scratched and worn , but it was Music with a capital ‘ M ’ and the first time I heard the Chopin first piano concerto , we nearly had a fight because I insisted on playing it right through four times . |
| 27 | ‘ And the first time I do it I hurt you . |
| 28 | Well the working in the pit and the first and the first time I went down the pit er the pit was er John Watson 's number four colliery in Motherwell . |
| 29 | ‘ Ely , ’ I said ( that was her name and the first time I 'd ever used it ) , ‘ I want to be free . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |