Example sentences of "the first time that [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As he hung about the Red Anchor he noticed for the first time that its character was changing . |
| 3 | And realised for the first time that my lot as a walker was far safer than that of a cyclist . |
| 4 | In this conversation I also learned for the first time that my father had been a poor vicar . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |