Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for the first " in BNC.

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1 As Brown observes : ‘ 'What does he do ? ’ remains the most illuminating question to ask about someone met for the first time . ’
2 I mean for the first time there 's a erm a sort of Asian wholesale supermarket .
3 But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college
4 Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college .
5 I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation .
6 Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good .
7 At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened .
8 When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people .
9 This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air .
10 We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up .
11 This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers .
12 In 1979 I interviewed for the first ( and last ) time the newly elected Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher .
13 I noticed for the first rime that there was a little hole in the door .
14 He stood up and I noticed for the first time a bunch of keys at his belt .
15 Looking back , I noticed for the first time how wind-bent and close-cropped were the cypresses .
16 I noticed for the first time that it was dreadfully long .
17 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 .
18 Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) .
19 Fenella took a deep breath and I noticed for the first time just how impressively she could breathe .
20 I speak for the first time .
21 ‘ Whenever the far end of an active edge A and the near end of an inactive edge I meet for the first time , if I satisfies A 's conditions for extension , then build a new edge as follows :
22 At the Lochy Bar in Caol ( pronounced cool ) just outside Fort William , Martin and I meet for the first time .
23 But I paid for the first of March so I 've lost li literally fourteen days have n't
24 In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius .
25 And I believe it was then , looking on that view , that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me .
26 It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger .
27 At least , this is how Mary , Freda and I felt for the first few weeks .
28 Frances told me about their life in Cornwall and I felt for the first time in my life that I was among people of an older generation that I understood , real people .
29 As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy .
30 Going to the first GLF meeting brought together these two aspects of myself as I saw for the first time the emotional need to have a context where I could be open and proud of my gayness , as well as the political context where my sexuality would seem relevant to all the other things that were going on around me at work and in the country at large .
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