Example sentences of "first time [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt like an infant staggering uncertainly out of doors for the first time into the infinitude of the universe . |
| 2 | ‘ It was the talk of the set — the rumour monitors were working overtime , ’ Jim said yesterday as he talked for the first time about the couple 's whirlwind romance . |
| 3 | Across the green , Doctor Lovell heard for the first time about the accident at the old people 's homes , and was magnanimous enough not to make any comment about Edward Young 's steps in front of his partners . |
| 4 | At the funeral Judith comes to terms with grief for the first time since the birth . |
| 5 | Sean Dodds , for Kelly , said he was out with his girlfriend for the first time since the birth of their baby . |
| 6 | Since the 1949 service , when Latin was heard in the Church for probably the first time since the Reformation , the Founder 's Psalm ( no. 130 ) has been chanted : |
| 7 | Tom Longland was relieved of his duties as commander of 3 Brigade of the Parachute Regiment , — the first time since the deployment of troops in Northern Ireland in 1969 that such action had been taken . |
| 8 | What with Mrs Clements and the girls also gone for the week , I suppose I was very conscious of the fact that once I departed , Darlington Hall would stand empty for probably the first time this century — perhaps for the first time since the day it was built . |
| 9 | Earlier , there had been fighting at Mannar on Aug. 1 as the LTTE attacked an advancing troop convoy ; naval artillery was used against rebel positions on Aug. 3 for the first time since the resumption of large-scale fighting on June 11 ; and a major clash took place on Aug. 4-5 , involving the repulsing of an unsuccessful rebel attack against the Jaffna fort . |
| 10 | He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done . |
| 11 | For the first time since the beginning of the Vietnam War , Congress had acted decisively to limit the powers of the President in foreign policy . |
| 12 | She laughed at herself , and at the extravagance of these thoughts , but she felt them nonetheless , and was , for the first time since the beginning of it all , truly lighthearted . |
| 13 | According to Israel Radio , this was " the first time since the beginning of the intifada that terrorists have managed to plant bombs in a Jewish place , wounding civilians and soldiers " . |
| 14 | It was Forest 's fifth win in seven league games and lifted them above Middlesbrough and out of the relegation zone for the first time since the beginning of September . |
| 15 | On Oct. 13 the National Bank of Ethiopia — the central bank — raised interest rates ; the government at the same time raised government workers ' wages , for the first time since the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 , by up to 110 per cent . |
| 16 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 17 | The House of Commons met on a Saturday for the first time since the war . |
| 18 | It is a curious miscellany , where photographs of his early ballets are mixed in with family snap-shots , pictures of his friends , souvenirs of journeys , Christmas and other greetings , a book of clothing coupons from the days of rationing , costume drawings and various illustrations cut from magazines , including a feature on Roland Petit 's ballet Carmen and examples of the ‘ new look ’ in women 's clothes when long skirts came back to fashion for the first time since the war ; he proposed a ballet about that , but it was rejected . |
| 19 | Labour 's rather narrow parliamentary majority in 1964 was chiefly an effect of a slump in Tory support and continuing electoral revival of the Liberals ( who received over 10 per cent of the vote for the first time since the war ) . |
| 20 | For the first time since the war , the two major parties each received the votes of less than 30 per cent of the electorate . |
| 21 | Digital technology has introduced ( or perhaps I should say that it has reintroduced , for the first time since the establishment and dominance of printing ) the unstable , or infinitely variable , text . |
| 22 | Foreign Ministers from 34 countries participating in the Conference on Security and Co-Operation in Europe ( CSCE ) met in Berlin on June 19-20 for the first time since the adoption in November 1990 of the Charter of Paris [ see p. 37838 ] . |
| 23 | Later , months later when I was taken into town for the first time since The Bomber , I wanted to put some flowers on her grave . |
| 24 | On Dec. 23 two Palestinians were shot dead and more than 40 injured during fresh unrest in the Gaza Strip , the borders of which had been opened that day for the first time since the abduction of Toledano . |
| 25 | For the first time since the end of the Falklands war there was , also , a less than total confidence among ministers in the certainty of the coming victory at the polls . |
| 26 | For the first time since the end of censorship , the Polish press ( long plagued by communist traditions of slanted reporting ) conducted a public argument neutrally and eloquently . |
| 27 | It is the first time since the end of the second world war that the Japanese navy has ventured overseas . |
| 28 | Yesterday the region — once the engine room of the late Eighties boom — saw its jobless total top 10 per cent for the first time since the end of the Second World War . |
| 29 | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia visited Kuwait on June 9 for the first time since the end of the Gulf war . |
| 30 | The move came four months after the Diet had approved a law permitting Japanese forces to serve overseas for the first time since the end of the Pacific War [ see pp. 38962-63 ] , and followed a request from UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali . |