Example sentences of "first time [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it 'll be my first time to do anything quite like this . |
| 2 | Trusts for the first time made it easy to create a right in a person who would have been a third party at civil law . |
| 3 | The first time saw you with Clapton , you just used a guitar straight into a Boogie . |
| 4 | Launched by the Princess of Wales in 1988 , the hospice entered the Awards for the first time using its 1990 accounts which covered its first operational year with a full complement of staff . |
| 5 | She was not accustomed to ask questions , and obeyed ; Dinah accompanied her , saw her seated in the chair , the anaesthetic given , and the extraction begun ; then for the first time let her own mind admit the possibility that Paul 's illness might have some such origin , that she herself had in that case been the wife of a syphilitic for years , and might have caught it ; that she might lose her face or her mind ; that Robin had inherited it ; and now — |
| 6 | ‘ It is interesting when I bring someone like Rodney Marsh here for the first time to see his reaction . |
| 7 | Charles was left for the first time to conduct his own strategy in Aquitaine , no doubt with Judith to help him . |
| 8 | For many , the thought of leaving their parents for the first time left them subdued . |
| 9 | It also ratified ordinances which allowed various crafts for the first time to organize their activities . |
| 10 | Not for the first time did it occur to Meryl that there was an obscure kind of convenience in having a schizophrenic on the premises . |
| 11 | Not for the first time did she wonder where and when that waiting British Armada would set out with the purpose of liberating Europe . |
| 12 | Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt 's excellent book , The Bomber Command War Diaries tell us that on the night of 23/24 September Bomber Command for the first time concentrated its main bomber strength on one city — Berlin . |
| 13 | The French authorities did something to safeguard communal property among their Moslem subjects in Algeria , even though Napoleon III ( in the Senatus-Consulte of 1863 ) found it inconceivable that individual property rights in land should not be established formally among the members of Moslem communities ‘ where possible and opportune ’ , a measure which actually had the effect of permitting Europeans for the first time to buy them out . |
| 14 | However , now that it is necessary to identify the functions the judges are performing when they sit as visitors in cases which are concerned with the question whether people are fit and proper persons to become or remain barristers , we must for the first time examine their function in that context alone . |
| 15 | The body came ashore into the grass with monstrous and majestic indifference , for the first time caring nothing at all what impression it made . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the revolt of 830 had transformed Charles 's prospects : the 831 draft-project for the first time gave him hopes of a share of the heartlands of Francia itself . |
| 17 | Anyone using the double-paddle of these canoes for the first time finds his ( or her ) chest expanded in a strain on shoulder muscles he never knew were there until he started canoeing . |
| 18 | With the reunification of Germany , GTF can for the first time offer you the chance to take an acclaimed Go-As-You-Please Fly- Drive package through the New Federal States . |
| 19 | While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] . |
| 20 | For instance , we are well-used to integrating vocational assessments in care , but for the general SVQ we have for the first time found it necessary to set up meetings with colleagues delivering modules in numeracy , information technology and budget financing . |
| 21 | Scientists then often speak of ‘ the scales falling from the eyes ’ or of the ‘ lightning flash ’ that ‘ inundates ’ a previously obscure puzzle , enabling its components to be seen in a new way that for the first time permits its solution . |
| 22 | He nodded , for the first time understanding her . |
| 23 | He held his head defiantly lifted , as if he wished no man to see him in dejection ; somehow I felt the gesture very characteristic , and was able for the first time to recognize his arrogance . |
| 24 | COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment . |
| 25 | Of those , the Trooper 's got the edge and for the first time leads its own sub-section of 4 × 4 off-roaders . |
| 26 | The Prince smirked and Gaveston turned , for the first time acknowledging their presence with a condescending sneer . |
| 27 | went wrong the first time do you ? |
| 28 | His head moves for the first time to follow his eyes and maintain the essential link of communication signals . |