Example sentences of "the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember clearly one of the first times I gave a word of knowledge . |
| 2 | It may be one of the first times citizens anywhere have been allowed to vote on detailed defence-procurement questions . |
| 3 | What was it like the during the first times y you went on the ? |
| 4 | It was the first time our national and international network had gathered together in one place and made us all realise just how much the work has grown . ’ |
| 5 | Statistics on the death penalty in the USSR have been made public for the first time since 1934 . |
| 6 | During the period of 1984–5 , more than 2,800 Sri Lankans sought asylum in the UK and in May 1985 , a visa requirement was imposed on the nationals of Sri Lanka , the first time such a requirement was imposed on the nationals of a Commonwealth country . |
| 7 | In these 239 murals , covering a surface of 1,585 square metres , there are traces of many influences making up a popular and forceful imagery : ‘ The codices , pre-conquest sculpture , popular art , the study of living people , the colour of nature as well as the paintings of the misnamed Italian Primitives , together with the modern artistic tendencies to which Rivera himself had contributed during his stay in France , all went to form his own peculiar style , which is apparent for the first time in these frescoes . ’ |
| 8 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | This enabled some major figures to show work for the first time . |
| 10 | This is not the first time that such considerations have arisen for readers of his fiction . |
| 11 | But it 's possible to go way beyond these limited , obvious exercises , and impro can be immensely exciting for young actors , allowing them to grasp situations and emotions imaginatively , perhaps for the first time . |
| 12 | You are entering the market for the first time when you write a letter about yourself to either agent , casting director , producer or director . |
| 13 | It 's very daunting to have to go to an audition for the first time in your life . |
| 14 | I understood this the first time I read him , he wrote , in that smelly room in Hackney . |
| 15 | All problems resolved in one go because now for the first time question of optimum distance becomes an issue for the viewer . |
| 16 | After that , strangely , for the first time began to feel the glow of achievement . |
| 17 | Having Goldberg in the room with it , as he has been in my life since that first day at college , made me grasp clearly , for the first time , just what it is I have been after , he wrote . |
| 18 | This established licensing hours for the first time , and put brewers on the defensive . |
| 19 | DTS will show the Harris 20–20 Accommodator hotel communication system for the first time at the show . |
| 20 | One of these , PC-Hornet , which has been developed over the past 10 years , will be shown for the first time by McDonnell Douglas . |
| 21 | ‘ The first time we did it , the stock check was programmed to call up everything , ’ Brown says . |
| 22 | Her patience in equally short supply , she found herself exasperated , not for the first time , by Peony 's snide tongue . |
| 23 | ‘ Would n't be the first time your husband 's come back when you did n't expect him , would it ? ’ |
| 24 | These efforts have proved — regrettably — to be unsuccessful , and the essay is therefore printed here for the first time without its owner 's permission . |
| 25 | ‘ Mind you , it 's the first time they 've been here , and if I 'm any judge it 'll be the last . |
| 26 | This will be the first time that an introduction to the range of MEDIA initiatives will have taken place in the city . |
| 27 | I started to read newspapers and magazines more , and , for just about the first time in my life , I began to take an interest in current affairs . |
| 28 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 29 | This is the first time I 've had someone round to tea in years , and it happens on the very day I become homeless . |
| 30 | What would everyone back at the cafe have thought when , for the first time in eight months , I had n't shown up for work ? |