Example sentences of "[pers pn] for the first time " in BNC.
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| 61 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 62 | COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment . |
| 63 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 64 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 65 | Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation . |
| 66 | Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’ |
| 67 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 68 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 69 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 70 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 71 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 72 | " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time . |
| 73 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 74 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 75 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 76 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 77 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ she answered , smiling freely at him for the first time that evening . |
| 78 | I was so relieved it was all over and my baby was alright and I held him for the first time . |
| 79 | She moved past them , smiling at Axel , as if welcoming him for the first time . |
| 80 | Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord . |
| 81 | She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again . |
| 82 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 83 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 84 | As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance . |
| 85 | Liessa spared him a brief glance , and appeared actually to notice him for the first time . |
| 86 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 87 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 88 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 89 | Jekub can be a bit scary when you see him for the first time . ’ |
| 90 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |