Example sentences of "the first time [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time her father had hit her and he looked upset , but suddenly she was very calm and her voice was steady as she said , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 2 | It was n't the first time her pupil had mentioned Rossmayne and each time the girl 's face had lit up in a way which made the nun catch her breath . |
| 3 | But that was not the first time her husband 's penchant for hiding cash had nearly cost her dearly . |
| 4 | For the first time her shoulders slumped and a tearful lump clogged her throat before she quickly shook it off . |
| 5 | On Jan. 27 the Pakistan government announced for the first time its full support for the UN peace plan [ see p. 38194 ] and the conference , and called upon the mujaheddin to follow its lead . |
| 6 | Thus a suspect defence completed the qualifying programme of six matches without conceding a goal ; they must be doing something right , although not for the first time their debt to Shilton was manifest . |
| 7 | The Russian Embassy tells me that this is the first time their head of state has visited London and not stayed at the embassy . |
| 8 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 9 | Not only did many teachers in many schools meet in library committees to discuss for the first time their common interests and sometimes contrasting perspectives with other members of subject departments across the school ; they also , for the first time , were forced to consider seriously the pedagogy implied by their present use or misuse of the resources already on offer or their failure to use them . |
| 10 | This was not the first time my employer had raised such a question ; indeed , it seems to be something which genuinely troubles him . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's the first time my students have said at the end of the book that they love grammar ! ’ |
| 12 | The first time my mother had been indignant and remarked that Syl had no right to disappear for the evening without telling us where he was going . |
| 13 | She was the headmistress of a school in Bolton and read about me when Alec Donaldson wrote an article in the Yorkshire Post , which was the first time my name was brought to the attention of the public . |
| 14 | ‘ And then set your thugs on me the first time my back 's turned . |
| 15 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
| 16 | For the first time my life wo n't be ordered . |
| 17 | For the first time his face became serious and severe . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And he admitted this was n't the first time his feet had come a cropper . |
| 20 | For the first time his work appears in large format and in Cibachrome colour . |
| 21 | Its sense of familiarity marks for the first time his ease within an international world of diplomacy . |
| 22 | His hair had been white for as long as Burun could remember , but this was the first time his age had seemed to affect his behaviour . |
| 23 | It was the first time his father had mentioned the separation . |
| 24 | He followed her into the sitting room , and noticed for the first time his packed bag . |
| 25 | And as Kim Barnes reports , it 's the first time his life 's work has been seen outside France . |
| 26 | He will now begin the physically and mentally painful process of taking male hormones to establish for the first time his masculinity . |
| 27 | Mr Bates stressed that this was the first time his family had used private health care . |
| 28 | Darley 's suspension could prove a major blow in his quest to ride 100 winners in a season for the first time his 16 year career . |
| 29 | It was the first time our national and international network had gathered together in one place and made us all realise just how much the work has grown . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Would n't be the first time your husband 's come back when you did n't expect him , would it ? ’ |