Example sentences of "[verb] them for the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 2 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 3 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 4 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 5 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 6 | Eddie 's gaze ran on round the room , taking in , as if seeing them for the first time , the stool and easel , the framed reproduction Leonardo drawings on the walls , the low divan bed . |
| 7 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 8 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 9 | Regina Royal Ginseng and Regina Evening Primrose Oil take those two remarkable natural substances and combine them for the first time with Regina 's fresh Royal Jelly . |
| 10 | It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time . |
| 11 | The species are ‘ christened ’ when a scientist describes them for the first time , illustrates their peculiarities and publishes the name in a scientific journal . |
| 12 | He reported after the Sixth Comintern Congress that ’ As a rule , when we tell our Latin American comrades , on meeting them for the first time , that the situation of their country is that of a semi-colony and consequently we must consider the problems concerning it from the viewpoint of our colonial or semi-colonial tactics , they are indignant at this notion and assert that their country is independent , that it is represented in the League of Nations , has its own diplomats , consulates , etc . ’ |
| 13 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
| 14 | cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time . |
| 15 | Swan 's ‘ guest ’ ( ie , unpaid ) lecturers are academics singing for their supper and for the chance to revisit sites and monuments , or sometimes visit them for the first time . |
| 16 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 17 | At present , Akeakamai can understand sentences of up to five words , and can understand commands even when hearing them for the first time . |