Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be the first time " in BNC.

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1 Customs officers say it 's the first time European green law has been used in Britain this way .
2 Customs men say it 's the first time they 've used Cites to seize timber
3 Actuality of warden describing the snake followed by interview where she sez it 's the first time she'stouched a grass snake and slow worms .
4 I mean I suppose it is the first time , it 's the only film of its type , you , you know what I 'm getting at , it 's exactly the same thing we , we tried very hard to avoid in the access guide , actually being able to say what instead of just saying you know
5 I guess it was the first time really in my life I 'd been totally left on my own .
6 It was the first time we 'd had proper monitors on stage — which meant it was the first time John heard his own voice .
7 I , I bet , I bet i I bet it 's the first time in your life you felt shi , yes come on !
8 He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years .
9 Er of course it 's , it 's , it 's I think it 's more longwinded than er I mean it 's the first time you 've fully got into it , and it 's more longwinded than the fifteen minutes allows you erm but I , I thought you were doing quite well to be honest .
10 Duncan realized it was the first time Myeloski had mentioned Oldenburg 's Russian origins .
11 And I realized it was the first time I actually slept in a bed with Frank ever .
12 I think it 's the first time she 'd actually seen Oliver look clean .
13 I think it is the first time he actually worked hard .
14 I think it was the first time you really spoke to me .
15 Or if somebody has a premiere it means it 's the first time that they do something .
16 And she has n't got two , that means it 's the first time I 've seen those three lights on .
17 Now if your person were to say come round , said it 's the first time they 've had a fit you get , call an ambulance , it may be epilepsy but it could be anything else , it could erm be , be the start of er something else in the brain because that 's all an epileptic fit is , it 's an electrical impulse , nobody actually knows why or when or how it 's caused , but it happens erm , but above all be very , very nice to your casualties , they 'll want to get up and they 'll run away , they want to get out , especially if it 's outside , because they 're embarrassed by it .
18 A spokeswoman for the band , whose hits include Love Cats and The Walk , said it is the first time The Cure will have played at such an intimate venue for almost ten years .
19 A spokesman for the British Field Sports Society said it was the first time he had heard of this happening ; which prompted Chapman Pincher to write in saying that the same thing had happened to him in 1961 ( Daily Telegraph , 21 and 24 December 1987 ) .
20 Announcing the award of £162,150 , Mr Justice Otton said it was the first time such an action had been brought .
21 He said it was the first time he 'd done so but he was damned if he was going to be wheeled into a restaurant like a blasted mental patient out with his nurse . ’
22 Philip Head , Chief Executive of the WDA , said it was the first time the agency had been asked to source Welsh suppliers for a company based in Germany and resulted directly from the WDA campaign to build business links with the motor regions of Europe .
23 , business director of Courtaulds Aerospace in Germany , said it was the first time in the world that a chromate-free coating had been given the go-ahead for civil aircraft manufacture .
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