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 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | For perhaps the first time in her life there was no feeling of restlessness deep in her soul , no desire to be somewhere else . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | By now she was really yelling , letting her natural feelings show for perhaps the first time in her conscious life . |
| 23 | Laura had felt , for perhaps the first time since her husband 's reappearance in her life , the warmth of a shared companionship . |
| 24 | come on because it would have been perhaps the first time I suppose it would n't be a |
| 25 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | So the first time you did it you were pretty happy with it were n't you ? |
| 28 | So the first time I had a conversation with Mr Wogan was live on television ! |
| 29 | The bare statistical truth of solvent abuse is that one in four of the children who die from the habit do so the first time they ever sniff glue or lighter fluid . |
| 30 | Yeah it says , I read the thing and it says I have n't got ta let them in unless they 've got a warrant so the first time they come they would n't have a warrant , surely , so they 're gon na have to go away and get a warrant and in that time then I 'd have to get a licence would n't I ? |