Example sentences of "the first time [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Trusts for the first time made it easy to create a right in a person who would have been a third party at civil law . |
2 | The first time saw you with Clapton , you just used a guitar straight into a Boogie . |
3 | For many , the thought of leaving their parents for the first time left them subdued . |
4 | went wrong the first time do you ? |
5 | Not for the first time did she wonder where and when that waiting British Armada would set out with the purpose of liberating Europe . |
6 | Not for the first time did it occur to Meryl that there was an obscure kind of convenience in having a schizophrenic on the premises . |
7 | COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment . |
8 | For instance , we are well-used to integrating vocational assessments in care , but for the general SVQ we have for the first time found it necessary to set up meetings with colleagues delivering modules in numeracy , information technology and budget financing . |
9 | The French authorities did something to safeguard communal property among their Moslem subjects in Algeria , even though Napoleon III ( in the Senatus-Consulte of 1863 ) found it inconceivable that individual property rights in land should not be established formally among the members of Moslem communities ‘ where possible and opportune ’ , a measure which actually had the effect of permitting Europeans for the first time to buy them out . |
10 | He nodded , for the first time understanding her . |
11 | With the reunification of Germany , GTF can for the first time offer you the chance to take an acclaimed Go-As-You-Please Fly- Drive package through the New Federal States . |
12 | Nevertheless , the revolt of 830 had transformed Charles 's prospects : the 831 draft-project for the first time gave him hopes of a share of the heartlands of Francia itself . |