Example sentences of "[vb past] for the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yohan , an old man , was moved to tears as he read a tract , as he realised for the first time how much God loved him . |
| 32 | ‘ So you will not consider me , after all our friendship ? ’ he asked , and Emily moved restlessly ; he realised for the first time that all her movements were studied . |
| 33 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 34 | She realised for the first time how Benjamin must be feeling . |
| 35 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 36 | ‘ 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 . |
| 37 | Speechless , she glared at him , then felt the colour start back to her cheeks as she realised for the first time what he was dressed in , which was very little indeed . |
| 38 | But as she sipped the hot , reviving brew , she realised for the first time since buying the house just how very quiet it was — eerily quiet . |
| 39 | He said he did not want to involve British troops and planes in action , but admitted for the first time that it was a possibility . |
| 40 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 41 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |
| 42 | The Soviet announcement in September 1989 that it was to dismantle the Krasnoyarsk radar station in Siberia ( see p. 36909 ) was followed by a statement on Oct. 23 , 1989 , by the Soviet Foreign Minister , Eduard Shevardnadze , who admitted for the first time that the location and orientation of the radar station constituted " a violation of the ABM treaty " . |
| 43 | In doing so , however , he admitted for the first time that he had made " every effort " to obtain the release of the hostages . |
| 44 | However , Murray also admitted for the first time how close she came to quitting after Barcelona . |
| 45 | He seemed embarrassed and stammered for the first time in his English . |
| 46 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 47 | Convenient scapegoats perhaps , but the K G B was open about today 's activities too ; Major General Alexander Karbalnov of the K G B revealed for the first time that seven hundred thousand people have been executed for political crimes since the revolution and that three-and-a-half million have been repressed . |
| 48 | There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest . |
| 49 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 50 | She realized for the first time fully consciously that she was ill at ease with , even afraid of , very tall men . |
| 51 | When she heard the voice of Sam 's mother she realized for the first time that it was more than likely that her own mother would , during the course of the evening , make some reference to the dinner-party which , she had been led to believe , was taking place in Pam 's house . |
| 52 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 53 | She experienced for the first time the frightening inhospitality of city streets . |
| 54 | Indeed it was historic , in that it provided for the first time for the elimination of an entire class of nuclear arms — land-based missiles of intermediate and shorter range . |
| 55 | Even the Darwinian theory of evolution was impressive , not because the concept of evolution was new — it had been familiar for decades — but because it provided for the first time a satisfactory explanatory model for the origin of species , and did so in terms which were entirely familiar even to non-scientists , since they echoed the most familiar concept of the liberal economy , competition . |
| 56 | Our Dean drew the ice-free peg and never caught for the first hour , as I predicted . |
| 57 | The Central Statistical Office said outstanding credit in February rose for the first time in six months . |
| 58 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |
| 59 | His voice trembled for the first time . |
| 60 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |