Example sentences of "the first time [conj] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time since her death that he had been able to think of it with anything like acceptance . |
| 2 | Then she went to bed exhausted and , for the first time since her terror started , slept well . |
| 3 | And , even more disturbingly , the three men now at liberty talk at length — for the first time since their release — about being wrongly imprisoned and reveal how they were beaten into signing confessions . |
| 4 | The new policy will drop , for the first time since its introduction in the early Eighties , a presumption in favour of house-building at the expense of other conservation considerations . |
| 5 | Anselm was now , for the first time since his election as archbishop in 1093 , free from any cause of dispute with the king , and the last year and a half of his life were spent in the peaceful routine of episcopal duties , disturbed only by the growing problem of the relations of Canterbury with York . |
| 6 | The Sultan is visiting with the senior of his two wives , the Raja Isteri , in an official capacity — for the first time since his country achieved full independence from Britain in 1984 . |
| 7 | ‘ I said if we did n't win this time we 'd abolish the b + + + + + + , ’ says Dixon , digging in for the first time since his Army days . |
| 8 | And with Teddy Sheringham , back at the City ground for the first time since his move to Spurs , and Durie performing like statues , Forest quickly found the self-belief they have been lacking . |
| 9 | I do not know if it was the first time since his appointment as executive chef at the Carlton Tower in 1968 , but I do know it was a rare occurrence to see him even emerge from his kitchen , let alone dine . |
| 10 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 11 | The nine-year-old , running for the first time since his victory in last March 's Sun Alliance Chase , finished a tired horse behind his impressive stable companion Run For Free . |
| 12 | You 've made my life complete for the first time since your mother died . ’ |
| 13 | I was totally conscious and for the first time since my labour started I felt relaxed . |
| 14 | It is not the first time that her family have worked at Glenpatrick as both her father and two of her aunts have also done so . |
| 15 | As he hung about the Red Anchor he noticed for the first time that its character was changing . |
| 16 | And realised for the first time that my lot as a walker was far safer than that of a cyclist . |
| 17 | In this conversation I also learned for the first time that my father had been a poor vicar . |
| 18 | This will be the first time that his work has come to Belfast and the two works he has chosen will show two of his greatest strengths — Shakespeare and the musical . |
| 19 | He must have been about to take a shower , she realised , noticing a towel flung carelessly on to the bed , and seeing for the first time that his shirt was undone almost to the waist , revealing his broad , muscular chest with its lavish covering of silky golden hair . |
| 20 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
| 21 | ENGLAND boss Graham Taylor has admitted for the first time that his team flopped in the European Championship finals because they were n't fit enough . |
| 22 | Is the Home Secretary aware that his decision of 2 May put that Zairean teacher in an extremely dangerous and vulnerable position , and that it is not the first time that his Department has deported people in the face of a court decision that they should remain in this country ? |
| 23 | Jets are also bidding to reach the cup final for the first time and their semi-final with West Coast is likely to be the closest of the day . |
| 24 | She had lain in her child 's bed and become aware of the reality of her heart for the first time as its beat quickened in response to the sparrow 's wild meanderings . |