Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] that for the first " in BNC.

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1 Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul .
2 Then he realised that for the first time he was looking into the front of a hurricane .
3 He realised that for the first time in weeks he had not thought of school , Murray , Fairbrother or the wretched affair of the letter .
4 I am sure that my hon. Friend has seen this survey — Has he noticed that for the first time , in February , the indices for orders and output show a rise ?
5 The petition was accompanied by one from the magnates , who also sought the withdrawal of the tax on wool : it appears that for the first time since the Ordinances of 1310–11 the commons and the magnates were joining together to seek concessions and measures of reform from the king .
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