Example sentences of "[pers pn] for the first time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 2 | It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us . |
| 3 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 4 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 5 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 6 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year many of them for the first time and we want to make sure that the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 8 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
| 9 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 11 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 12 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 13 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 14 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 15 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 16 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 17 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
| 18 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 19 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 20 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 21 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
| 22 | His eye fell on it for the first time as it sprang onto the marble plinth and clutched at the neck of the vase to steady itself . |
| 23 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 24 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |