Example sentences of "[verb] for the first time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married . |
| 2 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |
| 5 | I mean for the first time there 's a erm a sort of Asian wholesale supermarket . |
| 6 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 7 | He will now begin the physically and mentally painful process of taking male hormones to establish for the first time his masculinity . |
| 8 | He followed her into the sitting room , and noticed for the first time his packed bag . |
| 9 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 10 | What I did get away with was arguably worse than murder , and revealed for the first time something of what I was letting myself in for by getting involved with Karen Parsons . |
| 11 | GRAHAM TAYLOR last night revealed for the first time what Paul Gascoigne 's return means to him . |
| 12 | An S-A-S officer who led a mission to prevent the Gulf conflict spreading throughout the Middle East has revealed for the first time what happened behind enemy lines . |
| 13 | Not only did many teachers in many schools meet in library committees to discuss for the first time their common interests and sometimes contrasting perspectives with other members of subject departments across the school ; they also , for the first time , were forced to consider seriously the pedagogy implied by their present use or misuse of the resources already on offer or their failure to use them . |
| 14 | Anyway Rick spent what seemed like an eternity before he got the fish near the net but when it showed for the first time it soon became apparent why it had been so stubborn , the fish was massive ! |
| 15 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 16 | They saw for the first time what was to become a regular and tragic sequence of events : a dramatic response to the first treatment , a lesser one to a second , and in the end delayed death from a condition which had become as resistant to drugs as it was to radiation therapy . |
| 17 | On Jan. 27 the Pakistan government announced for the first time its full support for the UN peace plan [ see p. 38194 ] and the conference , and called upon the mujaheddin to follow its lead . |
| 18 | Jo Spence I think it was then I was ill that I understood for the first time what it was to be a victim . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The hardline leadership admitted for the first time it regretted the exodus , admitted there were problems and conceded it might be partly to blame . |
| 21 | the commentary must say for the first time what had , nonetheless , already been said [ by the original text ] and must tirelessly repeat what had never been said [ by other commentators ] . |
| 22 | Her voice acquired a jeering note , not unfamiliar to Roland , who wondered for the first time what his mother had been like before her disappointment , which in her case was his father and to some extent himself . |
| 23 | Their obligation to be honest with each other outweighed for the first time whatever they owed to anyone else . |