Example sentences of "the first time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Willem ‘ Wimpie ’ de Klerk , the President 's brother , was a member of the team , it is not the first time he has met Mr Mbeki . |
| 2 | I remember his telling us how the first time he encountered stress incontinence was as a young boy standing at the foot of the ladder while a little old country woman handed him down apples from the tree . |
| 3 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 4 | Mr Deng has repeatedly promised to retire in recent years , but yesterday was the first time he had reissued the pledge since the Tiananmen Square massacre and a shake-up of the party leadership . |
| 5 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 6 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 7 | Being rude about Palin feels like bombing Switzerland , but for the first time he seems , with this series , to be to post-Python what Paul McCartney was to post-Beatles . |
| 8 | This Figaro is the first time he has tackled an opera written by someone other than himself . |
| 9 | Here for the first time he found something of what the pilgrim on his bicycle had sought : ‘ the sense of mystery , and awe , and of another world at once far and near … a sense that we were vividly in the presence of the passion of Jesus and also vividly near to heaven , to which the passion mysteriously belonged , so as to be brought from the past to the present ’ . |
| 10 | For the first time he told himself that he was fully at home in his work . |
| 11 | For the first time he met , peeping above the surface , the force of a prejudice which had unrelenting ferocity . |
| 12 | Running the film group for ICI gave Haslam particular pleasure because it was the first time he had ever been fully in charge of a business , which he found very challenging . |
| 13 | For the first time he noticed the washing machine , a big gleaming automatic affair , and the only object in that kitchen that was not stained or chipped or coated with clotted food drips . |
| 14 | Not for the first time he reflected on the power of grief . |
| 15 | Nora Fanshawe raised her head and for the first time he saw her smile , an ugly harsh smile of self-mockery . |
| 16 | Terry Griffiths beat Clive Thorburn 9-5 , the first time he had beaten the Canadian in nine attempts . |
| 17 | Terry Griffiths beat Clive Thorburn 9-5 , the first time he had beaten the Canadian in nine attempts . |
| 18 | The first time he ever asked me if I knew where he could get ‘ coke ’ . |
| 19 | Haynes and Richardson opened and put on exactly 100 , then Richards , on his home ground , marched out , the first time he had batted at number three for some while . |
| 20 | This was the first time he had ever talked about himself , so she knew it must be very important and felt flattered that he was confiding in her . |
| 21 | For the first time he was proud of them . |
| 22 | He recalled the first time he had seen the impressive building as a schoolboy on a day 's outing to see the sights of London . |
| 23 | It was the first time he 'd bothered to read through them and he found much useful material for his hobby of persecuting Gina . |
| 24 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
| 25 | For the first time he has the respect of all sections of his party . |
| 26 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |
| 27 | Then he realised that for the first time he was looking into the front of a hurricane . |
| 28 | It was n't the first time he 'd thought that , but this time he was sure . |
| 29 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 30 | Of course Boy had seen inside a lot of different men 's houses , but this was the first man 's life he had ever watched at such close quarters , the first time he had ever seen a man taking care of himself , the first time he had ever seen another man living day after day after day . |