Example sentences of "for the first time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , three-times world champion Ayrton Senna drove an IndyCar for the first time but is unlikely to follow in Nigel Mansell 's footsteps . |
| 3 | He added : ‘ I made a tremendous start to the year and badly wanted that No 1 spot for the first time but it made me become negative . |
| 4 | ‘ I think they would both probably only tell me after the event about having sex for the first time but as long as I have helped prepare them they wo n't do anything silly . |
| 5 | It was fitting , in an ironic sort of way , that the 100th final , in 1991 , was contested by two League sides for the first time but neither Southend nor Leyton Orient fielded their best team . |
| 6 | I was very nervous when I went to meet Mr Wogan for the first time but the gentleman who drove the big car to the show was very nice and friendly . |
| 7 | Another important feature of the election was the relatively weak showing of the extreme right-wing Republicans ( Republikaner ) , who gained seats in several councils for the first time but whose votes lagged far behind those obtained in the European elections in June 1989 and forecast in recent opinion-poll findings . |
| 8 | This is a small amount in relation to our subscriptions which reached one million pounds for the first time but it does pose problems . |
| 9 | Yesterday , in Pittsburgh , she tried on her new school uniform for the first time but she was not too happy about the tie . |
| 10 | For the first time that anyone can remember , the Soviet Union has been buying at the London auction . |
| 11 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 12 | In a long statement read out on television after the evening news programme , the Politburo admitted for the first time that it was ‘ not indifferent ’ to the mass exodus of its people to West Germany . |
| 13 | In a long statement read out on television after the evening news , the Politburo admitted for the first time that it was ‘ not indifferent ’ to the mass exodus of its people to West Germany . |
| 14 | Truly to celebrate the sacrament for the first time , and to feel for the first time that the hands were the instruments through which God chose to nourish the souls of his people , could be overwhelming with gratitude or with penitence . |
| 15 | The correspondence , leaked to Labour 's Trade spokesman , Mr Gordon Brown , discloses for the first time that Lord Young appeared to plan with Professor Roland Smith , chairman of British Aerospace , to hide the figures rather than simply leaving the information to be ‘ scattered ’ in obscure documents in the hope that Parliament would not notice it . |
| 16 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 17 | ‘ So boo to you , ’ I said to the murderer as I went through the gate — and noticed for the first time that there were no bushes there , just a little hedge of lavender . |
| 18 | There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest . |
| 19 | Further , on appointment he had realised for the first time that the eastern parts of the District remained largely undeveloped by the WEA . |
| 20 | I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek . |
| 21 | It was at Lovell 's dinner-table that Coleridge eventually found Southey , and there for the first time that he met Lovell 's wife Mary and her eldest sister Sarah Fricker . |
| 22 | It was when I took my jacket off and stood before a mirror and saw for the first time that all I was was a pair of scarlet braces , that I realised that evangelism was n't enough . |
| 23 | And realised for the first time that my lot as a walker was far safer than that of a cyclist . |
| 24 | This is so unexpected when it is encountered for the first time that it feels like a deliberate deception . |
| 25 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 26 | Coming back , she saw for the first time that a letter addressed to herself lay on the kitchen table . |
| 27 | He said he did not want to involve British troops and planes in action , but admitted for the first time that it was a possibility . |
| 28 | ‘ So you will not consider me , after all our friendship ? ’ he asked , and Emily moved restlessly ; he realised for the first time that all her movements were studied . |
| 29 | As the sopranos of the WI soared off into the upper atmosphere he began to feel for the first time that this Christmas had meaning . |
| 30 | BUCKINGHAM Palace has admitted for the first time that Princess Diana 's marriage is in trouble . |