Example sentences of "the first time [pron] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 2 | The first time we made love , I started out believing I hated you , but when we … by the end I knew I did n't really , and that I loved you . |
| 3 | The first time we took advantage of our basic area potato quota ( 0.5 hectares from the Potato Marketing Board ) , we painstakingly planted , with the children roped in , buckets under arms tripping up and down the ridges , more Scotch seed than potatoes harvested . |
| 4 | ‘ The first time we did Top Of The Pops it was quite horrible . |
| 5 | Her mind refused to believe that anything could happen the first time one had intercourse . |
| 6 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 7 | I 'm going to write about the first time I met G.P. |
| 8 | ‘ For the first time I saw fear creeping in at Grimsby , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The first time I made love it was with the ground . |
| 10 | ‘ D' you know , the first time I tasted melon was n't till I was well over twenty ? |
| 11 | She looked up at him , and for the first time she saw emotion in his eyes . |
| 12 | For the first time she gave vent to loud screams , which became her usual method of attracting attention from that time : ‘ this manner of crying endured many years after this time , for aught any man might do , and therefore , suffered she much despite and much reproof ’ . |
| 13 | For the first time she showed emotion . |
| 14 | I remember his telling us how the first time he encountered stress incontinence was as a young boy standing at the foot of the ladder while a little old country woman handed him down apples from the tree . |