Example sentences of "feel for the [num ord] time " in BNC.

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1 That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell .
2 I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river .
3 When she got home , she felt for the first time in months the need to write a letter , to commit her thoughts and feelings to paper and communicate through the medium of paper and pen with someone .
4 And now , as he entered Lady Ursula Berowne 's sitting room , Dalgliesh felt for the first time that he was in a private house , that this was a room which the owner had made peculiarly her own .
5 He felt for the first time in his life what it must be like to be one of them and was overwhelmed with a feeling of sadness and futility .
6 Frances told me about their life in Cornwall and I felt for the first time in my life that I was among people of an older generation that I understood , real people .
7 Truly to celebrate the sacrament for the first time , and to feel for the first time that the hands were the instruments through which God chose to nourish the souls of his people , could be overwhelming with gratitude or with penitence .
8 As the sopranos of the WI soared off into the upper atmosphere he began to feel for the first time that this Christmas had meaning .
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