Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that it was profoundly a work of synthesis was obviously much less important at first , and may even seem not very important now , as one settles down to enjoy it for the first or umpteenth time . |
| 2 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 3 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 4 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 5 | As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance . |
| 6 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 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 | Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm not complaining about it , but I say I did n't raise it for the first time |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Liessa spared him a brief glance , and appeared actually to notice him for the first time . |