Example sentences of "the first time [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Bennett would have a fit if she knew Celia had gone up to Beckwith 's Folly , but it was n't the first time lately that she had been overwhelmed by the desire to escape , although it was the first time she had actually done anything about it . |
| 2 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 3 | It is much cheaper to spend a little longer thinking about them beforehand and getting them right the first time rather than the second , third or fourth time around . |
| 4 | Twice I asked Ward about this , the first time just after we had come out of the cloud on the eastern slope of the pass and had caught our first glimpse of Cajamarca far away in the valley below , and then again when we stopped at the Baños del Inca to ask our way , the hot springs steaming beside the public baths . |
| 5 | And then do it on the first time well if he wanted , he do n't have to go . |
| 6 | A man like Mr Silvester Horne is regarded by his congregation with feelings of almost unmeasured adoration , due to the fact that he and they are really opening the book of life for the first time together and comparing impressions . |
| 7 | this morning when , where we all watched it for the first time together and as , as Richard said you know , I 'm , I 'm squeamish about going to the dentist , so , and it cos er , it 's basically there 's a scene in the bar where they 're pulling this guy 's tooth out |
| 8 | going down the right ? , five years old down the river was the first time ever but just have to wait for him ! |
| 9 | This was the first time since 1948 that the entire Legislative Yuan had been elected , and the first time ever that it had been elected entirely within Taiwan . |
| 10 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 11 | ‘ My whinge is being charged 10 for being overdrawn with National Giro for the first time ever and by only 3.11 — and even though they were in possession of cheques for 36.53 which they knew would be honoured . ’ |
| 12 | Dick has a generous amount of time and experience in taildraggers like Staggerwings and T-6s but he wanted Bill Dodds who had broad P-40 for the first time so that he could compare the aircraft with others that he 's flown . |
| 13 | THREE appeal court judges were asked to rule for the first time yesterday that parents could sue doctors for negligence over the loss of a child though the fatal injuries had been suffered before birth . |
| 14 | Walter Kent , the American composer of The White Cliffs of Dover , visited the town for the first time yesterday and presented an original of the song manuscript to the district council , which will display it in the £14m ‘ White Cliffs Experience ’ due to open in 1991 . |
| 15 | Andersson has not played for a month but trained with United for the first time yesterday and made an instant impression . |
| 16 | COLIN Montgomerie experienced the torture chamber of Baltusrol for the first time yesterday and insisted the time had come for Europe to demolish America 's stranglehold on the U.S. Open . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , in Bosnia the heads of its three warring armies met face-to-face for the first time yesterday and signed a ceasefire deal for the whole republic . |
| 18 | MIKE Watkinson 's pick ‘ n mix deliveries brought him ten wickets in a match for the first time yesterday as Lancashire thrashed Warwickshire by an innings and 25 runs at Edgbaston . |