Example sentences of "the [adv] first time in " in BNC.

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1 Now , briefly , possibly for the very first time in his life , he felt helpless and miserable at one and the same time .
2 Then , for the very first time in my life , a faint light flickered somewhere inside me .
3 For the very first time in her life she needed someone .
4 Well , in this view — quite possibly for the very first time in the history of their occupations — publishers and booksellers are wrong .
5 He had felt sure when he left his hotel room that every eye in Saigon would be on him that evening because he was wearing a white tuxedo for the very first time in his young life .
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