Example sentences of "the first time [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 91 | It was the first time we 'd returned to any location and I thought it must be a good sign . |
| 92 | But when I phoned her ( at a ‘ safe ’ house ) for this article , it was the first time we 'd spoken directly since the filming . |
| 93 | ‘ That was the first time we 'd met . ’ |
| 94 | When Phil and I , the first time we 'd been skiing together , so that was last , not last year |
| 95 | This was the first time we had returned to Eggleston Burn since a summer visit in search of the Grass of Parnassus and butterwort that grow in its boggy flushes . |
| 96 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 97 | Visits supervisor Jenny Wallace said of the group : ‘ This was the first time we had welcomed a party from the Salvation Army . |
| 98 | ‘ It was Sheena Hawthorne , and it was the first time we had set eyes on each other for 50 years , ’ Betty says . |
| 99 | The first time we had a break together , Dinda said let's go out , I said well somewhere fairly close where we can take little Rocket |
| 100 | that was the first time we had an inkling there was anything , and that was the Sunday before we moved and he said do you mind if I come and bring the shed up and then I can stop in there and I go and have , a , anyway , he came with Alan and she made you a cup of coffee did n't she ? |
| 101 | Yet virtually the first time we climbed together , had n't we spent nigh on a month clipping bolts in France and loving it ? |
| 102 | ‘ The first time we talked about it was in summer 1991 , ’ she said . |
| 103 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
| 104 | ‘ And the first time we performed it was a screamer , Miss Greene — what doom … and the second time I had not learned my part , not at all , and they said , ‘ If you are going to corpse continually … ’ ’ |
| 105 | The first time we rented the house , I was three . |
| 106 | ‘ Believe it or not , the first time we spoke of our affairs was last night in the restaurant . |
| 107 | ‘ The first time we did it , the stock check was programmed to call up everything , ’ Brown says . |
| 108 | ‘ The first time we did Top Of The Pops it was quite horrible . |
| 109 | ‘ Anyway , the first time we did the scene , the catch did n't unhook and I literally got dragged through the mud by my boobs . |
| 110 | ‘ Well , she was doing it the first time I laid eyes on her ! ’ |
| 111 | The first time I went back to a lake where I used to go as a child . |
| 112 | The first time I went he got us to do a drink diary and I know I did n't tell the truth . |
| 113 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 114 | The first time I went to prison I was nineteen . |
| 115 | The first time I went to prison I had already had the baby , but he was taken away from me in hospital . |
| 116 | Well the working in the pit and the first and the first time I went down the pit er the pit was er John Watson 's number four colliery in Motherwell . |
| 117 | Cos once er I mean about the s third time the , no the first time I went in the f in the rapid that was all |
| 118 | The first time I went I followed the route recommended by Peter ? |
| 119 | On one of these trips to London when I was at school , good when we went with the Brownies , I went two or three times and er , one time when I was a bit older , I mean the first time I went as I say I was only about seven , but , when I was a bit older I went again , they said if |
| 120 | Cos th I remember the first time I went down that way over the bridge . |