Example sentences of "the first time [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation . |
| 2 | Equally uncertain is the length of his stay in Egypt : Ibn Hajar , followed by Taskopruzade , says only that " he returned to Rum and was appointed kadi of Bursa " , which post , as will be shown below , he held for the first time probably from about 795/1392–3 to about 805/1402–3 . |
| 3 | A new name soon to be engraved in the swindon town hall of fame is centre-half Adrian Whitbread … a five hundred thousand pound signing from Orient Adrian was on the County Ground pitch for the first time today to line-up with his new team mates for the annual pre season picture … and as you 'd expect it was all smiles |
| 4 | In the city the FT one hundred shares index broke through the three thousand barrier for the first time today after hopes of an early cut in interest rates . |
| 5 | Ripley 's failure was part of a team malfunction that left Blackburn beaten for the first time away from home in the League . |
| 6 | So that when they get to university , it 's not the first time away from home , it 's not the first time they 've got their money and so on . |
| 7 | If you put the two together erm you i it becomes understandable why they , they adopted these policies to the south , even though sort of from what happened the first time particularly in a retrospective way , the expectation would be you would , this would be the are where you would go for land reform straight away . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In February '91 Tony started an essay on Arafat , ‘ I hooked up with him on two different occasions , over the course of a couple months , trying to do a photo-essay on him ; which was probably the most ridiculous thing to do the first time out of the box for a while — talk about a third-rate Keystone kops movie , with me as the star ! ’ |
| 10 | Villages now a mere half-hour apart by car could then be prohibitively far away : the daughter of an Essex farm horseman was taken to see his parents across the county boundary in Suffolk for the first time only at the age of 14 . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , perhaps because of the procedural problems outlined above , Article 100A(4) appears to have been used for the first time only in 1992 , in relation to German legislation banning the use of PCP ( pentachlorophenol ) despite the fears expressed at the time the Single European Act was signed that it would destroy the Court 's achievements in this sphere . |
| 12 | The only thing these artists have in common is their gallery of origin the Bachelier-Cardonsky of Kent , Connecticut , USA which has sent their work for the first time ever to Paris where it can be seen at Gianna Sistu for a month . |
| 13 | Fiat 's cultural showplace , the Palazzo Grassi , collaborates for the first time ever with a Venetian museum and produces an exhibition that is beautiful but misses the mark |
| 14 | But she had never realized quite how much knowledge she had assimilated until today , until she had been forced into conversation for the first time ever with a total stranger . |
| 15 | And here , for the first time ever on a decorative plate by Coalport , a pair of lively Robins pay tribute to the works of one of the most respected bird illustrators of all time . |
| 16 | Giraffe , zebra and , for the first time ever on an industrial site , white rhinoceros have been introduced . |
| 17 | They met in Northampton for the first time ever before Saturday 's offical world heavyweight title eliminator . |
| 18 | In his comprehensive Apples Of England , Dr Taylor states that ‘ In England this variety only reaches full maturity in years of hot summers , ’ and goes on to say that ‘ Indeed , November- December-picked Sturmers are the best , ’ and , with a basket-full of fine specimens picked for the first time ever in the latter month , I agree . |
| 19 | For the first time ever in Britain , CS gas was fired at rioters by the police . |
| 20 | It must be the first time ever in the Five Nations Championship that two referees have dropped out of the opening games , with England 's Ed Morrison missing the Ireland v Wales game through a rib injury , and Yours Truly having to watch the England v Ireland game on television through a ‘ flu virus . |
| 21 | His two goals helped Vale beat local rivals Stoke for the first time since 1956 and for the first time ever in the FA Cup . |
| 22 | For the first time ever in Germany , Chillida , who normally works with museums in Spain , will be exhibiting pieces from his private collection . |
| 23 | And then , for the first time ever in my life , I what I normally do is I have sort of maybe some questions that I definitely pre-plan and if I 'm lucky one or two of them , and this paper all three of my prepared questions actually came up exactly as I 'd worded them , or near enough . |
| 24 | After taking his trousers and underpants off-for the first time ever in front of someone who was n't a member of his family — he was told he had no transmittable diseases — whatever they were , thought Charlie . |
| 25 | Paris and Frankfurt are growing particularly fast ( capitalisation increases of 83 per cent and 64 per cent respectively during 1989 ) , with turnover of domestic equities on German Exchanges being larger than the ISE 's for the first time ever in 1989 . |
| 26 | ‘ This is the first time anywhere in the world this has happened . |
| 27 | I guess it was the first time really in my life I 'd been totally left on my own . |
| 28 | An exhibition that brings together ( for the first time in over a century ) the Pre-Raphaelites ' paintings , sculpture and decorative arts that decorated the houses of the region 's Victorian industrialists and entrepreneurs . |
| 29 | The old man , propped in his chair for the first time in over a month , laid a trembling hand on the babe 's head . |
| 30 | These two documents provided , for the first time in over a century , a summary of the various arguments on the subject of a national audit office . |