Example sentences of "the first time i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understood this the first time I read him , he wrote , in that smelly room in Hackney . |
| 2 | This is the first time I 've had someone round to tea in years , and it happens on the very day I become homeless . |
| 3 | That was the first time I 'd seen a man 's penis so clearly and my mouth and throat went dry . |
| 4 | Perhaps because this was the first time I was all alone in a big city in a new country . |
| 5 | Well , three nuts spat me out and I can honestly say that the first time I fell , headfirst , facing outwards , above the wall we had just climbed , I really did see stars . |
| 6 | ‘ The first time I took him for a walk without a harness , he had a bit of a job to work that out as well . |
| 7 | ‘ This is the first time I 've done anything significant on film . |
| 8 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 9 | The first time I went back to a lake where I used to go as a child . |
| 10 | The first time I remember seeing her was in The Roebuck . |
| 11 | That was the first time I 'd had any money out of gigging in a year . |
| 12 | This was not the first time I had noticed the old enmity of the Norwegians for the Germans . |
| 13 | The first time I wore jeans I did n't dare wear them with a sweater . |
| 14 | The first time I did not pay his passage money . |
| 15 | ‘ The first time I held those keys , I put them in my mouth and felt my bones had turned to gold , ’ she announces . |
| 16 | ‘ I fell in love with this place the first time I saw it . |
| 17 | ‘ The first time I heard my own voice ? |
| 18 | I can hardly remember the first time I felt that we loved each other . |
| 19 | Edward overworked in his lonely digs — ‘ the first time I ever truly worked ’ — and in these early letters to Hooton he discovered new qualities in his nature . |
| 20 | She stands close to the bed , and for the first time I see her naked : Agnes , the heroine of my novel . |
| 21 | The first time I met my wife , I was wearing a fine blue jacket . |
| 22 | The first time I just heard a sort of brassy actor 's voice with a bit of Northern in it , so I apologized and said it was a wrong number . |
| 23 | ‘ D' you know , the first time I tasted melon was n't till I was well over twenty ? |
| 24 | I remember the first time I offered Dana one of these cigarettes : he accepted one , and I then took one myself . |
| 25 | For the first time I was free of obligation or responsibility . |
| 26 | Now , while as if bestowing some order of merit she fastened the beads round my neck , her face wore a motherly expression and for the first time I was with the Aunt Louise of my childhood . |
| 27 | For the first time I realized that Celia would know all about me from my letters to Aunt Louise . |
| 28 | It was a terrible disappointment , my heart sank as for the first time I detected a stiffness in Leo 's voice . |
| 29 | As I opened it , and looked out , I realized that it was the first time I had consciously looked out : before , I had always been hurrying by . |
| 30 | ‘ The first time I saw him we conversed very closely together ; and in the prospect of death he seemed solicitous to prepare for it . |