Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 2 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 3 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 4 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 5 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 6 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 7 | I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner . |
| 8 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 9 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 10 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 11 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 12 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 13 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 14 | I was so relieved it was all over and my baby was alright and I held him for the first time . |
| 15 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 16 | to , to erm to try and remember what it was like when you read it for the first time . |
| 17 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 18 | Jekub can be a bit scary when you see him for the first time . ’ |
| 19 | In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale . |
| 20 | It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time . |
| 21 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 22 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've seen the looks people give Jenny when they see her for the first time , ’ says her mother , Helen . |
| 24 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 25 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 26 | It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us . |
| 27 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 28 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 29 | He saw me for the first time . |
| 30 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |