Example sentences of "now [prep] the first [noun] " 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 am talking now about the first shot . |
| 20 | Then it got quite boring , and it was really hard work , and now after the first year 's finished I 'm glad we thought of that because I 've done quite well . |
| 21 | She looked out of the window and saw the brown strip of plough , and then the line of willows marking the river , and then the green slopes rising , dotted now with the first sheep of the year . |
| 22 | We 've had almost a minute of stoppage time and Leicester lead by that single David Speedy goal from what seems a long time ago now in the first half . |
| 23 | Now in the first race the ten fifty , number nine is called Jew Wan na Bet |
| 24 | Its restaurant and coffee bar are now on the first floor but once were on the ground floor where the bank is now . |