Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 2 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 3 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 6 | This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers . |
| 7 | I came at the same time as the Sweeper came for I saw him standing by this very cage in clothes the people wear and not in Keeper-clothes such as he began to wear afterwards . ’ |
| 8 | When I came around the next time all I seen was smoke … and I knew we put the final bullet in him , ’ Destefani said after emerging from the cockpit of his winning racer . |
| 9 | He stood up and I noticed for the first time a bunch of keys at his belt . |
| 10 | Looking back , I noticed for the first time how wind-bent and close-cropped were the cypresses . |
| 11 | I noticed for the first time that it was dreadfully long . |
| 12 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
| 13 | Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) . |
| 14 | Fenella took a deep breath and I noticed for the first time just how impressively she could breathe . |
| 15 | In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius . |
| 16 | And I believe it was then , looking on that view , that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me . |
| 17 | But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression . |
| 18 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |
| 19 | I called for the last time at the first house in the village and pressed the buzzer , but on getting no reply resigned myself to the long walk down the mountain . |
| 20 | Frances told me about their life in Cornwall and I felt for the first time in my life that I was among people of an older generation that I understood , real people . |
| 21 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 22 | In Guildford I saw for the second time the travelling exhibition ‘ Architecture in Context ’ , staged by the RIBA 's South East Region . |
| 23 | Going to the first GLF meeting brought together these two aspects of myself as I saw for the first time the emotional need to have a context where I could be open and proud of my gayness , as well as the political context where my sexuality would seem relevant to all the other things that were going on around me at work and in the country at large . |
| 24 | At this point I saw for the first time , a really good reason for my being in Thailand as PCV . |
| 25 | Next to the butcher , where the meat was arranged on silver platters and the chops dressed with paper ruffs , I saw for the first time a shop stocked exclusively with cheeses : nothing else , just cheese . |
| 26 | In between the two mosques , in the great arc of roofs and terraces which surmounted the houses of Shahjehanabad , I saw for the first time that secret Delhi which lies hidden from those who only know the city from ground level . |
| 27 | I looked for the first time straight into his moonlit eyes , and I saw Perkin the son , the husband , the one who worked with wood . |
| 28 | The make-up girl went to work on me as Duncan and I reminisced about the last time we 'd worked together . |
| 29 | ‘ When Karen broke the news of our marriage so crudely at Thomas 's party , and I saw the look on your face , I understood for the first time the force of that old cliché about wishing the floor would open up and swallow one . |
| 30 | Her crew danced to their tasks , and I understood for the first time the meaning of the Indonesian words for " crewman " — " anak prahu " , literally " child of the prahu " . |