Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | ‘ 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 . |
| 33 | 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 " . |
| 34 | Jo Spence I think it was then I was ill that I understood for the first time what it was to be a victim . |
| 35 | Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay . |
| 36 | I learned for the first time what it was to be a stranger , an immigrant from primitive parts who spoke with a funny accent and called things by their wrong names . |
| 37 | I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood . |
| 38 | Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river . |
| 39 | The Special Discount is being continued on the same basis ( see page 2 ) and for those policies which qualify for the first time the increase is offset by approximately 6% . |
| 40 | The Front comprised political and religious organizations and parties based in Iraq and Jordan , including the Moslem Brotherhood , which agreed for the first time to co-operate without preconditions with nationalist and non-religious groups . |
| 41 | The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman ! |
| 42 | The committee , which meets for the first time next Tuesday , is expected to end its deliberations in January . |
| 43 | The other two mammal species which bred for the first time were a pair of Geoffroy 's marmoset which had one youngster , and the cheetah female , Angie , who produced four cubs . |
| 44 | Nonetheless , George Albert Smith 's name stands as the inventor of a colour process which was viable , which was shown worldwide , and which presented for the first time on the screen a photographically produced colour picture . |
| 45 | The Secret Committee on the Peasant Question , which convened for the first time on 3 January 1857 , consisted entirely of Nicholaevan grandees . |
| 46 | A group of Irrawaddy dolphins , which appeared for the first time in Laos last year , are in danger of dying out as a result of the increasing use of gill nets by local fishermen . |
| 47 | Figure 2 shows the undulator for this new facility , which lasted for the first time in January 1992 . |
| 48 | She experienced for the first time the frightening inhospitality of city streets . |
| 49 | She realised for the first time how Benjamin must be feeling . |
| 50 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
| 51 | Speechless , she glared at him , then felt the colour start back to her cheeks as she realised for the first time what he was dressed in , which was very little indeed . |
| 52 | But as she sipped the hot , reviving brew , she realised for the first time since buying the house just how very quiet it was — eerily quiet . |
| 53 | The Soviet announcement in September 1989 that it was to dismantle the Krasnoyarsk radar station in Siberia ( see p. 36909 ) was followed by a statement on Oct. 23 , 1989 , by the Soviet Foreign Minister , Eduard Shevardnadze , who admitted for the first time that the location and orientation of the radar station constituted " a violation of the ABM treaty " . |
| 54 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 55 | She realized for the first time fully consciously that she was ill at ease with , even afraid of , very tall men . |
| 56 | When she heard the voice of Sam 's mother she realized for the first time that it was more than likely that her own mother would , during the course of the evening , make some reference to the dinner-party which , she had been led to believe , was taking place in Pam 's house . |
| 57 | Christina flicked back her long hair and concentrated on Pauline , who seemed for the first time to want to confide in her . |
| 58 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 59 | She noticed for the first time that he was wearing a pair of white , glowing incongruously in the twilight . |
| 60 | She noticed for the first time that they had stopped , and looking round , discovered that they were outside the house . |