Example sentences of "[pn reflx] for the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 2 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 3 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 4 | At Dry Drayton near Cambridge he had succeeded his father as patron and incumbent in 1808 , presented his own eldest son Samuel in 1829 , and himself for the second time in 1831 . |
| 5 | In his turn , Tran Van Hieu knelt to perform the same silent acts of obeisance as the older man , but after prostrating himself for the third time , he remained on his knees and to his children 's surprise began to pray aloud . |
| 6 | This year Farnborough also has a skate scene emerging from Farnborough itself for the first time since about 1981 . |
| 7 | She said , ‘ I expect it 'll be something you 'll remember and treasure for the rest of your lives , ’ and Carrie was pleased because she sounded like herself for the first time that day . |
| 8 | It was the first diet she 'd ever tried and it made her feel good about herself for the first time , too . |
| 9 | In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation . |
| 10 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
| 11 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 12 | As they began to climb the stairs , arms still wrapped around each other , Ronni asked herself for the hundredth time what she would do if he did . |
| 13 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 14 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 15 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 16 | The bamboo rungs , though wide and strong , were loosely lashed with unreliable cordage , and Lorne 's and my first simultaneous step onto the lowest rung resulted in it slipping its knots and depositing us both heavily in the mud — myself for the second time in less than twenty minutes . |
| 17 | ‘ But I 'm talking too much — it 's having you all to myself for the first time . ’ |
| 18 | I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away . |
| 19 | The sorts of experiences that you then get people talking about is really well I 've learnt to stand up for myself for the first time , erm I now know what I want to do , I know who I am , erm projects where I 've been involved , where you get women saying things like well two years ago I would never have dreamt of going and talking to the Council about my house , or my children , or that I ca n't get a job because I ca n't get child care , and I would n't have dreamt of doing that and people who now say well now I can do that , I know that I can go and stand up for myself and stand up for what I think is right , just as well as my husband can . |
| 20 | When Elizabeth 's mother and sister had gone to Leeds , Elizabeth and George had the house to themselves for the first time since the early days of their marriage . |
| 21 | People who hear themselves for the first time on a tape-recorder often find it hard to believe that the stranger talking is actually them . |
| 22 | We will be dealing with all of those existing clients in terms of reassessing both their care needs and their financial ability to contribute to whatever package of care they 're getting , as well as taking on board all the new ones who present themselves for the first time in nineteen ninety four , five . |
| 23 | But we still are left managing those people in ninety four , ninety five , as well as taking on board the new triangles , the one with the horizontal lines , where we 're going to get people presenting themselves for the first time , and requiring services . |
| 24 | After all , if you have begun addressing yourself for the first time to such an issue you are more likely to be able to have the courage of your convictions at work in trying to tackle , for example , management by inertia . |
| 25 | Patients will often be your greatest ally when testing yourself for the first time . |