Example sentences of "[vb past] the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next night , Captain Edward ( Ted ) Parsons RE and his paddler , Leading Seaman Irvine , prepared to land , Ted Parsons taking a ducking as he tried the first time to board the canoe in a nasty swell . |
| 2 | Algy used up his measure of luck , I was then given a super navigator with only the sharpest of pencils and the instinct of a homing pigeon who took me through my tour ; he perished the first time he New without me after I was hijacked to Bennett 's staff . |
| 3 | ‘ I scored the first time after eight minutes . |
| 4 | His finest moment came the first time he opened the hall door to a visitor and , standing a little aside , intoned , " Follow me , sir , " before proceeding with due dignity to announce the guest at the door of the morning room . |
| 5 | Briefly , the image of Lexandro 's own two indulged foolish siblings , Andria and Phoeba , flitted through his consciousness for what seemed the first time in years . |
| 6 | He recalled the first time he had seen the impressive building as a schoolboy on a day 's outing to see the sights of London . |
| 7 | Even now she vividly recalled the first time she saw Nader at the exclusive Royal Club , a dining , gambling and sports centre . |
| 8 | I did n't enjoy it when it happened the first time . |
| 9 | If you put the two together erm you i it becomes understandable why they , they adopted these policies to the south , even though sort of from what happened the first time particularly in a retrospective way , the expectation would be you would , this would be the are where you would go for land reform straight away . |
| 10 | ‘ I was always afraid of things which worked the first time . ’ |
| 11 | A customer returns a skirt because the zip broke the first time she wore it . |
| 12 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 13 | Remember what he said when we called the first time ? |
| 14 | I mean you 'll spend just what you wan na spend in Spain , I mean like we , the night , when we went the first time , we took an ice box , but oh , we |
| 15 | This represented the first time that all five states had agreed on all aspects of ending the Cambodian conflict . |
| 16 | 1991 saw the first time that the Open School was able to run a summer holiday programme which culminated in the performance of dance , music and drama work done by the children . |
| 17 | I knew the first time was seldom ideal and I wanted to get past it to the second and third times , and all the times after that , when our love could go forward and mature and develop . |
| 18 | It does n't bother me the way it did the first time . |
| 19 | And even if a miracle somehow happened and he agreed to try again , it would simply end up exactly the same way it did the first time . |
| 20 | ‘ It would bore the rest of the company even more than it did the first time . ’ |
| 21 | He remembered the first time he had come there , his first coveted invitation to the home of one of the richest men in West Germany . |
| 22 | As he walked behind the lawnmower he did n't care for , he remembered the first time he 'd ever seen her . |
| 23 | She remembered the first time she 'd seen him , striding tall and long-legged into the reception area of the TV station , instantly dominating the place by sheer presence alone . |
| 24 | Amy nodded , her eyes like saucers , and Kathleen remembered the first time she had worked in A and E. |
| 25 | That marked the first time that solar neutrons were detected on the ground . |
| 26 | But because of his private trainer status Sibton Abbey 's win on Saturday marked the first time Murphy 's name had been credited as trainer of a big race winner . |
| 27 | When Norman recruited Sir Ian McGregor , this marked the first time in Britain that a nationalised industry chief had been appointed through executive search . |
| 28 | It marked the first time that an Offshore Division production platform has been used to process oil or natural gas from a third party well . |
| 29 | Monday marked the first time he spoke from the Oval Office , sitting at John F Kennedy 's desk , on a national holiday celebrating George Washington 's birthday . |
| 30 | Though he recalled once scoring a hat-trick for Toronto Blizzard , Nicholl 's two goals against Dunfermline marked the first time in his senior career that the Irishman had notched a double in top-class football . |