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

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1 It would n't be the first time that a man has been seduced by female beauty and been left the poorer for his pleasure , nor the first time Lotta has attempted by stealth to deprive me of something which I value . ’
2 Chettle back into the Leicester half now Thomson and Agnew combining well and the first time Ball volleyed out towards Ormanroyd .
3 Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother .
4 It will be Llanelli 's 104th cup tie , prop Lawrence Delaney 's 58th appearance in cup rugby — and the first time St Albans have reached this stage of the event .
5 For the first time Spatz 's head came up and his eyes searched him out .
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