Example sentences of "now [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | All problems resolved in one go because now for the first time question of optimum distance becomes an issue for the viewer . |
| 2 | But now for the first time the diocese was being consulted — informally , quietly , but systematically . |
| 3 | Now for the first time she was face to face with fragmented suggestions of reality , distorted perhaps , like the sun glancing on water , but hinting at something very different from the fairy tale princess the child Harriet had claimed as her own . |
| 4 | Now for the first time the ferret can progress beyond the rabbit and get at its head . |
| 5 | Up to this moment he has always behaved as spontaneously as an animal , surrendering to appetite and vomiting ; now for the first time he makes a considered choice . |
| 6 | The book is published now for the first time as a result of scholarly study by Steve Joshua Heims of the cybernetics group of the late 1940s . |
| 7 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 8 | Now for the first time he touched her skin , the skin of her forehead , with his fingertips . |
| 9 | But now for the first time she recognised the chill of fear . |
| 10 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 11 | There was evidently no absolute labour shortage , if only because the reserve armies of the rural population ( at home and abroad ) were now for the first time advancing en masse upon the industrial labour markets . |
| 12 | Yet the activity of musical direction displayed in both contexts ( solo and ensemble ) accords with other evidence , brought forward now for the first time . |
| 13 | I simply , I simply ca n't deal with the question because some of these are , are raised now for the first time |
| 14 | no I 'm not , I 'm sorry I said some of them are raised now for the first time , I was about to say I 'm not complaining I 'm simply pointing out , standing here without the instructions I ca n't deal with the matter |
| 15 | It 's been a four-hour journey for Fiona and David , now for the first time they meet the competition and hopefully make new friends . |
| 16 | British Champion Colin McRae pushing everything to the limits … it requires rapid changes through the gear box … even when cornering … now in the Banbury factory of Prodrive engineers have spent 18 months developing a semi-automatic gear box … they 're already becoming common in Formula One … now for the first time they 've been successfully introduced in a rally car … with just a touch of a button the driver can change gear without having to take his hand off the steering wheel . |
| 17 | Jim has been a newspaper seller in Swindon for 25 years and now for the first time in his life , he 's made the front page . |
| 18 | Open me post now for the first time , oh oh that 's nice oh I can have a update for supply teachers , Wednesday the fifteenth of April , you baby sit for me ? |
| 19 | I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’ |
| 20 | Now at the same time as ordering the bricks I 'm taking on myself to order the tiles for the roof at the same time . |