Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Driving-time : one and a half hours the first time , two hours the second . |
| 2 | LIFESPAN RDBI will encrypt this password the first time the data transfer program is run . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 4 | ‘ I fell in love with this place the first time I saw it . |
| 5 | If your program needs to find an empty string the first time it is used , you can subsequently assign a null string to it . |
| 6 | ‘ I have made up my own mind where I want to go and I spoke to Frank Clark this morning the first time for a fortnight . |
| 7 | Ignore this warning the first time LIFESPAN RDBI is run . |
| 8 | The name of the local pub , Live and Let Live , seemed like a good omen the first time she drove past it . |
| 9 | This is a splendid opportunity to enjoy the fantastic visibility from the Trislander 's big windows , for many passengers the first time they have really had much of a view from an aircraft . |
| 10 | ‘ Dustin made extraordinary sense the first time he ever read the script . |
| 11 | Gary could remember with utter clarity the first time that some other kids had called him a Spade . |
| 12 | It is when this mass of dancers divides and moves to the sides that the open space available for dancing is exposed fur the first time . |
| 13 | But each of their small squad of 12 won at least one medal in their final count of 16 golds , 13 silvers and nine bronzes the first time this has happened . |
| 14 | I saw it twice , the second time to see what I 'd missed through racked sobs the first time . |
| 15 | After a while you get when you first start the first time you ever ride a two wheeler and you have someone holding it or you have some stabilizers on till you know what you 're doing . |
| 16 | I 've just spent six months in Cottonvale and I mean its degrading , I mean cos your locked up in a cell from eight o'clock at night till six o'clock in the morning and your not got any toilet facilities you 've got to use a potty if you want to go to the toilet and it is degrading , I mean there 's people in there , well I was a first offender the first time I was in , but I mean there 's people in there seventeen year old that have n't a clue about life in general and it is degrading for them . |
| 17 | He had never considered that tightening the girth to the tightest hole the first time the saddle was put on the horse 's back could hurt and frighten the horse and make it ‘ girth shy ’ forever . |
| 18 | It could n't have been anything else but Dad had put out the best wood the first time ; some of the rest was rotten . |
| 19 | He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money ! |
| 20 | ( The computer does n't always reveal the whereabouts of traps , secret doors and invisible creatures the first time of asking , unless Samson has high intelligence or is experienced . ) |
| 21 | Most children reject new foods the first time they are offered , but if your child clearly finds the food disagreeable , even after trying it three or four times , then do n't serve it up again . |