Example sentences of "[prep] the first time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The advent of the new political regime changed this ; for the first time it was possible to conceive of a legal order which rested on a basis different from that of the civil law . |
| 32 | It was an historic statute since for the first time it provided a statutory power for the banning of marches and processions of protest and demonstration . |
| 33 | Last year also for the first time it was televised by Yorkshire Television . |
| 34 | This year it has an improved range which again highlights the benefits of Torsion technology , although for the first time it 's combined with injected EVA , rather than firmer PU which turned some runners away . |
| 35 | It is eager to scotch rumours that the withdrawal of the Official Custodian will mean that its COIF ( Charities Official Investment Funds ) common investment funds will also disappear , and for the first time it has issued a brochure to advertise its products . |
| 36 | When I took Jack [ Rosenthal ] home for the first time it was my parents ' silver wedding anniversary . |
| 37 | It is said that one of the merits of ‘ Documenta ’ this time round is that , with four much-travelled curators , it is truly international in its scope , and that for the first time it takes account of artists not operating in the great ‘ art capitals ’ … |
| 38 | The intactness of the tomb meant that for the first time it was possible to analyse fully how the many objects found within it were used , and their ritual and social implications within the Sicàn culture better understood . |
| 39 | For many women in coal communities it provided the only wage labour available to them , and for the first time it provided wages for the work they 'd always done . |
| 40 | For the first time it was me who provoked the break in a relationship . |
| 41 | For the first time it occurred to Katherine as a conscious thought that he might find life with her mother a trial in ways which did n't only concern her . |
| 42 | Not for the first time it occurred to him how vulnerable his position was , and he reflected ruefully that there was probably no more security or protection in the rank of Khan than there had been in any of the various honours which he had received while he had been an intimate of the clique which had surrounded Nogai . |
| 43 | For the first time it became clear that in manpower terms the USSR was deploying the largest R and D effort in the world . |
| 44 | Anyway Rick spent what seemed like an eternity before he got the fish near the net but when it showed for the first time it soon became apparent why it had been so stubborn , the fish was massive ! |
| 45 | Bush said that although " there are some things in it I had to gag and digest " , he would sign it " because for the first time it makes significant and long-term cuts in federal spending that should have a positive impact on America 's economic future " . |
| 46 | When you 're 15 and working in an office for the first time it is a new world and a big challenge — especially when all your colleagues are speaking a foreign language . |
| 47 | I have over the years many times come to the rostrum but for the first time it gives me no pleasure at all in saying what has to be said . |
| 48 | For the first time it includes children 's wear and one of the best known names in British fashion — Hardy Amies , now living in the Cotswolds and still designer to the Queen . |
| 49 | There was a silence for the first time it occurred to first form that the spider might of been put there on purpose , they looked at one another . |
| 50 | Being rude about Palin feels like bombing Switzerland , but for the first time he seems , with this series , to be to post-Python what Paul McCartney was to post-Beatles . |
| 51 | Here for the first time he found something of what the pilgrim on his bicycle had sought : ‘ the sense of mystery , and awe , and of another world at once far and near … a sense that we were vividly in the presence of the passion of Jesus and also vividly near to heaven , to which the passion mysteriously belonged , so as to be brought from the past to the present ’ . |
| 52 | For the first time he told himself that he was fully at home in his work . |
| 53 | For the first time he met , peeping above the surface , the force of a prejudice which had unrelenting ferocity . |
| 54 | For the first time he noticed the washing machine , a big gleaming automatic affair , and the only object in that kitchen that was not stained or chipped or coated with clotted food drips . |
| 55 | Not for the first time he reflected on the power of grief . |
| 56 | Nora Fanshawe raised her head and for the first time he saw her smile , an ugly harsh smile of self-mockery . |
| 57 | For the first time he was proud of them . |
| 58 | For the first time he has the respect of all sections of his party . |
| 59 | Then he realised that for the first time he was looking into the front of a hurricane . |
| 60 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |