Example sentences of "from the first time " in BNC.
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1 | Janet Bond , 42 , hospital employee ( left ) : ‘ I remember all this from the first time round ! |
2 | From the first time she was asked to canter a figure-of-eight she knew that one always cantered a figure-of-eight ; and so when she was asked to trot one instead , she became increasingly anxious , excited , irrational , and disobedient . |
3 | In 1280 , for example , ‘ the metes and bounds of the New Forest from the first time that it was afforested ’ were said to extend from the Test westwards to the Avon , and from the Solent northwards to the Wiltshire county boundary . |
4 | It is the most addictive drug ever — many become addicted from the first time they use it . |
5 | They were like that from the first time I met them . ’ |
6 | This is far from the first time that the Fnac has made a widely publicised intervention claiming that discounting favours the interests of the consumer . |
7 | Women are so utterly used to working with their own bodies : we are trained to do so from the first time we wear pink-for-a-girl , and a concentration upon the significations of our physicality is encouraged to a far greater extent than is the case with boys and men . |
8 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
9 | ‘ Did n't you guess , my beautiful idiot , that I 've been crazy about you from the first time I saw you standing outside your hotel bedroom in France ? ’ |
10 | The new bill , signed into law by Bush on Nov. 17 , raised the minimum wage from the first time since 1981 . |
11 | We really felt at home here from the first time we came . |
12 | You can almost tell just from the first time they 're doing their marking . |