Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 2 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 3 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 4 | The women I met in the refuge , and others I met in the first few weeks of my journey , stated their own investment in this book : they did n't want to be objects observed , they wanted to be its subjects . |
| 5 | When I got to the first rehearsal she announced , ‘ You 're all going to be in the Command Performance . ’ |
| 6 | But I was okay when I got to the first tee . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Before I got in the first team , ’ he says , ‘ I was asking myself over and over again : ‘ can I really do it ? ’ . |
| 8 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 9 | Holland I sank before the first nuclear tests and was shielded by the sea from radiation . |
| 10 | It may be argued that this is essentially the approach that I used in the first chapter . |
| 11 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 12 | This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers . |
| 13 | ‘ I came into the first form of his boarding school . |
| 14 | Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 . |
| 15 | The consequences of such a reduction in the level of armaments ( and more generally of ‘ military preparedness ’ ) are considerable , for as I noted in the first edition of this book , if there is any generalization about the causes of war which is supported by some empirical evidence , it seems to be that which establishes a connection between an arms race and an increased probability of war ( Richardson , 1960 ) . |
| 16 | In 1979 I interviewed for the first ( and last ) time the newly elected Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 17 | I noticed for the first rime that there was a little hole in the door . |
| 18 | He stood up and I noticed for the first time a bunch of keys at his belt . |
| 19 | Looking back , I noticed for the first time how wind-bent and close-cropped were the cypresses . |
| 20 | I noticed for the first time that it was dreadfully long . |
| 21 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
| 22 | Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) . |
| 23 | Fenella took a deep breath and I noticed for the first time just how impressively she could breathe . |
| 24 | As for myself , I arrived at the first weekend in a state of high evangelism that must have bored everyone I met . |
| 25 | But I paid for the first of March so I 've lost li literally fourteen days have n't |
| 26 | In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius . |
| 27 | I knew an immovable object when I saw it , and I retreated through the first sleeping car , where grooms in T-shirts lolled in open day compartments ( shut off by heavy felt curtains for sleeping ) , on my way to consult with the Chinese chef in the forward dome car 's kitchen . |
| 28 | And I believe it was then , looking on that view , that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me . |
| 29 | In relation to the former , as I indicated in the first paper , our capacity to invent commodity vocabulary is not paralleled by levels of commodity understanding . |
| 30 | I heard about the first one pretty soon , the next night in fact , because everyone I knew was talking about the arrival of the new beauty . |