Example sentences of "[art] first time [that] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 2 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 3 | It was the first time that I had openly , assertively hitched . |
| 4 | The meeting was held in Harvey Haddon Stadium in Nottingham , and it was the first time that I had ever been on an Inter-City train . |
| 5 | It was the first time that I had experienced the midnight sun . |
| 6 | It was the first time that I had ever seen the inside of a police cell . |
| 7 | It was the first time that I had been picked to run in an individual event against the USA , and I was looking forward to it . |
| 8 | It was the first time that I had run a 60 metres in years and I improved my personal best to 6.63 seconds , which I was pleased with — but not so happy , obviously , to lose to Lincoln by one-hundredth of a second . |
| 9 | It knew the nights when I was more drunk than others and the first time that I turned my back . ’ |
| 10 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 11 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 12 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 13 | In 30 years of visiting the city this is the first time that I have experienced this state of affairs . |
| 14 | And erm this was the first time that I 'd ever been sort of as far afield into the country as this , and to go and see the erm er Toll Bridge at , that was , and top go over it , because it was a long wooden bridge that used to go over , and er we thought that was absolutely fantastic . |
| 15 | I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood . |
| 16 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 17 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
| 18 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that this is the first time that I have asked him a question since his appointment , and I intend to enjoy it ? |
| 19 | This was the first time that I have heard the Minister quote figures with any satisfaction . |
| 20 | The first time that I heard of Maastricht was on 12 May 1940 , when the RAF was shot out of the sky and knocked on the ground . |
| 21 | Our friendly policeman had gone but there were nurses there for the first time that I 'd seen , and even the odd doctor . |
| 22 | ‘ I first came across Virginia Woolf through Orlando when I was a teenage person and it was the first time that I felt really addressed by a writer , ’ she says . |
| 23 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |