Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] for the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 2 | ( China , while not using its veto , nevertheless abstained , thus breaching for the first time the unanimity of the five permanent members of the Security Council in supporting resolutions on the Gulf crisis . |
| 3 | On the way back from that holiday in Provence , the party stopped in Paris , which John was also seeing for the first time . |
| 4 | But now she looked around her , really seeing for the first time the humming activity of the fruit and vegetable market , breathing in the aromatic smells , noticing how charming the open square was , with its border of pizza stalls and cafés and bistros . |
| 5 | It is also now analysing for the first time in a quantitative way the changing social and cultural characteristics of small towns . |
| 6 | B&P human resources director David Ramsay said the firm was resuming full-time working for the first time in four months , in order to meet greater demand . |