Example sentences of "[adv] [art] first time [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Izzie returned with the cups of wine , saying softly to her father without looking at Gabriel , ‘ Was n't I right the first time I saw this boy ?
2 At first , this made Lucien nervous , especially the first time he came across a half-clad female sauntering along the sky-lit corridor outside his room on her way to the bathrooms .
3 come on because it would have been perhaps the first time I suppose it would n't be a
4 They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue .
5 The bare statistical truth of solvent abuse is that one in four of the children who die from the habit do so the first time they ever sniff glue or lighter fluid .
6 Yeah it says , I read the thing and it says I have n't got ta let them in unless they 've got a warrant so the first time they come they would n't have a warrant , surely , so they 're gon na have to go away and get a warrant and in that time then I 'd have to get a licence would n't I ?
7 So the first time you did it you were pretty happy with it were n't you ?
8 Once again , now it does n't matter which way round you start , you can start left over right or right over left , but the second time you do it opposite to the first time , so the first time I put the left one over first and the right one over that and then tuck it through , just like tying a shoe lace really , okay ?
9 So the first time I had a conversation with Mr Wogan was live on television !
10 It was a tag that surprised me very much the first time I heard it … but now I 've stopped worrying .
11 This was their sixth successive League victory , and though it was only the first time they have scored three goals in a game this season , everyone at Highbury knows it could have been seven .
12 So if your virus scanner was set to check once a day it would not run it every time you boot up , only the first time you booted up that day , excellent !
13 For some people this is literally the first time they have thought about and felt sensual responses in their own body .
14 Yeah , the first thing I 've ever the first time I 've shaved my legs , I forgot the water .
15 The 3-0 defeat of England is a first for India and it is also the first time they have recorded a 3-0 win against any other country .
16 It was also the first time he had driven with navigator John Anthony , a retired fire officer from South Nutfield .
17 Also the first time you realised how unlikely your crime was ever to be discovered .
18 I think that erm the actual position er assured was that industry gave us a quotation in erm April nineteen ninety two which actually was somewhat higher than we 'd anticipated , but I 'm not sure that industry reyu viewed it as an increase because it was probably the first time they had formally quoted a price .
19 It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service .
20 Then I should think you came up here , and that was probably the first time you realised what had happened .
21 I remember clearly the first time he played our first single .
22 Now the first time they tried to change them in May they lost the vote , the women , to increase it from three to four .
23 Well the first time we went when we went all together did n't we ?
24 Well the first time you have to get it for at least six months .
25 Yet virtually the first time we climbed together , had n't we spent nigh on a month clipping bolts in France and loving it ?
26 Somehow we are sure that this is not the first diet you have ever bought , or indeed the first time you have tried to lose weight .
27 And er course the first time you know , first impressions like
28 Consequently , you fall over or jack-knife forwards the first time you land heavily .
29 It was almost the first time he had sounded civil .
30 I must admit that for almost the first time I feel a stab of concern for him , a gesture of fellow regard .
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