Example sentences of "[prep] the first time [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus a suspect defence completed the qualifying programme of six matches without conceding a goal ; they must be doing something right , although not for the first time their debt to Shilton was manifest . |
| 2 | For the first time his work appears in large format and in Cibachrome colour . |
| 3 | He will now begin the physically and mentally painful process of taking male hormones to establish for the first time his masculinity . |
| 4 | For the first time his face became serious and severe . |
| 5 | Its sense of familiarity marks for the first time his ease within an international world of diplomacy . |
| 6 | For the first time my life wo n't be ordered . |
| 7 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |