Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 2 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |
| 3 | And I believe it was then , looking on that view , that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me . |
| 4 | Jo Spence I think it was then I was ill that I understood for the first time what it was to be a victim . |
| 5 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
| 6 | Far more significant and revelatory was the arrival of the wireless , in the sense that it meant for the first time the voice of the outside world and all that it encompassed — good and bad — was heard throughout this enclosed community . |
| 7 | Indeed it was historic , in that it provided for the first time for the elimination of an entire class of nuclear arms — land-based missiles of intermediate and shorter range . |
| 8 | Although Nizan died physically on 23 May 1940 , there can be little doubt that he died for the first time , politically and to a large extent emotionally , that afternoon in late August 1939 when , standing on the harbour at Ajaccio , he read Aragon " s editorial in Ce Soir and was confronted by the bitter reality of Nazi-Soviet collaboration . |
| 9 | It was in that terrible moment of loss that he noticed for the first time the eagle in the cage on the other side of his from where Minch 's cage was . |
| 10 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |