Example sentences of "first time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember clearly one of the first times I gave a word of knowledge . |
| 2 | Her mind refused to believe that anything could happen the first time one had intercourse . |
| 3 | The first time one addresses an instructor , one should call him sifu , which means ‘ father ’ and is always applied to a Chinese kung fu instructor in accordance with the art 's long family traditions . |
| 4 | I 've been thinking about dragons all my life , but this is the first time one has turned up . ’ |
| 5 | One looks at a star , one sees radiation from an object which may have a surface temperature of many thousands of degrees — in fact , internal temperatures of millions of degrees , but with a radio telescope one 's looking at very , very cold regions and these were totally inaccessible before the advent of radio astronomy , or of this type anyway , and for the first time one was able to see material spread between the stars rather thinly , but in fact in a very cold state . |
| 6 | ‘ The first time we did it , the stock check was programmed to call up everything , ’ Brown says . |
| 7 | For the first time we are trying to preserve the historical integrity of the carvings . ’ |
| 8 | Yet virtually the first time we climbed together , had n't we spent nigh on a month clipping bolts in France and loving it ? |
| 9 | It was the first time we 'd had proper monitors on stage — which meant it was the first time John heard his own voice . |
| 10 | The first time we went , Marie wore her bra and knickers , but she was told off for that , so she bought this real nice swimming costume . |
| 11 | This was the first time we had returned to Eggleston Burn since a summer visit in search of the Grass of Parnassus and butterwort that grow in its boggy flushes . |
| 12 | ‘ The first time we went he looked at the dog and showed no interest . |
| 13 | It is unlikely that any of us could remember the first time we saw our own reflection ( mirrors often form part of toys aimed at very small babies , such as activity mats or cot toys , and there are , of course , lakes , kettles and other possibilities for reflection ) ; what is likely is that it was a member of our family ( probably our mother ) who told us : ‘ That 's you , that 's what you look like ’ . |
| 14 | His starting-point is La finta giardiniera which he regards , perhaps arguably , as a descendant of Richardson 's novel Pamela and also , unarguably , as the first time we hear , dramatically , Mozart 's individual voice . |
| 15 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I just knew it was sight at first love . |
| 16 | ‘ The first time we did Top Of The Pops it was quite horrible . |
| 17 | In these texts for the first time we find ‘ precatory ’ being used to describe the essential nature of trusts , and as the key to discovering what legal institution is involved . |
| 18 | For the first time we can differentiate the local atomic order around sodium from that surrounding calcium and from the atomic environment of silicon . |
| 19 | And ices afterwards , I should think , as it 's the first time we 've ever had supper together , away from school . ’ |
| 20 | It was the first time we made a connection . |
| 21 | For the first time we actually feel in control of our eating and of our body . |
| 22 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 23 | It 's the first time we have been on a coach holiday and we were a bit apprehensive . |
| 24 | It was the first time we 'd ever done an overland journey . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's the first time we 've been banned anywhere , ’ said Barry , adding that singer Michael Stipe had been involved in the production of the video and that the rest of the band had only seen it once . |
| 26 | Clint : ‘ There 's never been any doubt for us right form the first time we came over . |
| 27 | ‘ This is the first time we have exported Bovril cubes anywhere , ’ a spokesman tells me . |
| 28 | ‘ The first time we talked about it was in summer 1991 , ’ she said . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's the first time we have dealt with anyone assaulted with a Christmas tree . |
| 30 | ‘ It will be the first time we have seen her since it happened , ’ said Mr Young , a TV repair man , before they left home at Watton , Norfolk , for the visit to the mortuary . |