Example sentences of "first time in my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started to read newspapers and magazines more , and , for just about the first time in my life , I began to take an interest in current affairs . |
| 2 | Yet , in the presence of Williams , he felt ‘ for the first time in my life … in the presence of personal sanctity … |
| 3 | For the first time in my life I was having breakfast in my dressing-gown . |
| 4 | They turned out to be very nice digs , but I was still faced , for the first time in my life , with the practicalities of keeping myself fed and clothed , and getting to lectures and passing exams . |
| 5 | For the first time in my life it made sense . |
| 6 | For the first time in my life I found the real Shakespeare . |
| 7 | Then , for the very first time in my life , a faint light flickered somewhere inside me . |
| 8 | For the first time in my life , my hair behaved itself and curled round my face in a manner which I considered most flattering , and my make-up went on well on a skin which did n't have one spot or blemish . |
| 9 | For the first time in my life I had a weight problem . |
| 10 | I liked it all , because I was lonely for the first time in my life , and an itinerant . |
| 11 | ‘ Not very much , ’ she — I think I will say ‘ retorted ’ for the first time in my life , ‘ for I daresay Elizabeth will have to take off everything . ’ |
| 12 | I pursued the howling dog , hands clawed and teeth bared , stopping only when my rage was replaced by the realisation that for the first time in my life I 'd put another human being before myself . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's the first time in my life that someone really cares for me . |
| 14 | It was the first time in my life I wanted to carry myself as a woman , not like a weird , kinda little ragamuffin girl . ’ |
| 15 | For the first time in my life I found myself surrounded by friends — friends whom I found interesting , and friends who appeared to find me interesting , bright and witty , despite my all-too-evident disadvantages . |
| 16 | In a way I was happy : I had achieved something , I was winning for the first time in my life , and I had a strong sense of myself as a differentiated individual . |
| 17 | Immediately , therefore , I was involved in the gay movement and for the first time in my life in a couple relationship . |
| 18 | I 'VE just been to court for the first time in my life at 74 , because my local council said I owed them £63 for my wife 's poll tax during 1991–92 . |
| 19 | I tried , for the first time in my life , to understand what it must have been like then , under tsarist rule , where people , peasants , were no more than livestock , to be dealt with by the aristocracy as they saw fit . |
| 20 | It was the first time in my life I ever thought of Diana as beautiful . |
| 21 | It was the first time in my life I had acted like a complete sod to other people , and I felt that my behaviour was worse because I had loads of advantages the lesser recruits did n't : I could speak French ; I was basically healthier and therefore found fitness much easier ; I was a north European Caucasian which endeared me to some of the more racist instructors . |
| 22 | For the first time in my life I had a lover who was a companion . |
| 23 | This was the first time in my life that I had lived in deep country , without easy access to shops , transport and people I knew . |
| 24 | For the first time in my life I was made conscious of not being able to control my own situation . |
| 25 | I was in great pain , and suddenly for the first time in my life , I forgot my fear of John Reed . |
| 26 | For the first time in my life I have friends , and interests , shared interests like baseball and opera and partying , and I gleam and bobble with privilege . |
| 27 | I therefore started working for the first time in my life . |
| 28 | Do n't you understand , for the first time in my life I 'm afraid of her … |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |