Example sentences of "[adv] the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting the paper work right the first time saves the customer being bothered with further questions . |
| 2 | He had been right the first time . |
| 3 | you were right the first time . |
| 4 | ‘ No … you were right the first time : what happened between us was a dreadful mistake … unplanned . |
| 5 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 6 | Izzie returned with the cups of wine , saying softly to her father without looking at Gabriel , ‘ Was n't I right the first time I saw this boy ? |
| 7 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |
| 8 | No , oh you had it right the first time , oh no you did n't , you need a face , find a face , look . |
| 9 | No , you were right the first time boy ! |
| 10 | right the first time . |
| 11 | yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering |
| 12 | Some of them had found making love an enjoyable experience but others talked about how they had found sex an anti-climax , especially the first time . |
| 13 | At first , this made Lucien nervous , especially the first time he came across a half-clad female sauntering along the sky-lit corridor outside his room on her way to the bathrooms . |
| 14 | Dress code : Adidas tracksuits and shells ( fat laces , of course ) Kangols and Westwood Buffalo hats ( which were quite silly enough the first time round as far as we 're concerned ) . |
| 15 | It was n't enough the first time , and it wo n't be enough now . ’ |
| 16 | You heard well enough the first time . ’ |
| 17 | Presumably one reason why people doing something is they did n't do it enough the first time , or they did n't do it properly , or they did n't do it successfully and therefore they 've got ta keep doing it . |
| 18 | Mowed down the first time she left her new baby son |
| 19 | When Razor went down the first time I was shouting and jumping up and down , ’ she said . |
| 20 | ‘ I mean , to have a German plane shot down the first time we went up . ’ |
| 21 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 22 | ‘ But I have n't done anything — except be an absolute misery , ’ she added honestly as she realised for perhaps the first time what a wet blanket she had been . |
| 23 | For perhaps the first time in her life there was no feeling of restlessness deep in her soul , no desire to be somewhere else . |
| 24 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 25 | By now she was really yelling , letting her natural feelings show for perhaps the first time in her conscious life . |
| 26 | Laura had felt , for perhaps the first time since her husband 's reappearance in her life , the warmth of a shared companionship . |
| 27 | come on because it would have been perhaps the first time I suppose it would n't be a |
| 28 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 29 | Once again , now it does n't matter which way round you start , you can start left over right or right over left , but the second time you do it opposite to the first time , so the first time I put the left one over first and the right one over that and then tuck it through , just like tying a shoe lace really , okay ? |
| 30 | So the first time you did it you were pretty happy with it were n't you ? |