Example sentences of "if [prep] the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 2 | I felt myself falling , falling , as if for the first time , deeper and deeper into mysterious pits of passion and anxiety , longing and despair . |
| 3 | She admired his hands , seeing the slender curled fingers and pink palms as if for the first time . |
| 4 | And then he smiled at her as if for the first time , a smile that made her think that he had been touched by God . |
| 5 | For Lee everything was being spotlit and she was seeing the people around her as if for the first time . |
| 6 | And yet , in spite of the fatigue , he felt , good , as if for the first time in his life he had really stretched himself and grown up . |
| 7 | It is all very well expounding the theory that an artist should cultivate an innocent eye , seeing things as if for the first time . |
| 8 | In which case the non-verbal concomitants of the various utterances are improvised as if for the first time , and in the best of all possible productions an unforeseeable Lear , Macbeth or Rosalind emerges in performance , and the speeches come across expressing meanings which would have been hard to foresee from reading the bare text . |
| 9 | Then one July evening , just before the war , he suddenly noticed the roses as if for the first time . |
| 10 | Affection , melancholy , and other emotions that eluded classification , surged and slopped inside her as she noted each detail as if for the first time — or as if for the last . |