Example sentences of "first time [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 2 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 3 | Marco van Basten , the European Footballer of the Year , gave European champions Milan a timely boost by returning to the squad for training this week for the first time since a cartilage operation on 1 September . |
| 4 | She experiences this unbelievable elation for the first time during a discussion of phonetic laws with Professor Jarvis-Andersen . |
| 5 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend accept the good news , contrary to what was said by the hon. Member for Ashfield ( Mr. Haynes ) , that although in recent times my constituency has experienced economic difficulties , so successful has my right hon. and learned Friend 's training and enterprise programme been that the Crawley and District Industries Association has told me that this is the first time during a downturn in the economy when training by companies has increased rather than decreased ? |
| 6 | ‘ I have made up my own mind where I want to go and I spoke to Frank Clark this morning the first time for a fortnight . |
| 7 | That 's the first time for a couple of hours . |
| 8 | For the first time for a century woman discovered that men wanted something more human from them than a nun-like chastity , a bien pensant idealism . |
| 9 | In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men . |
| 10 | Eva can still remember the excitement of hearing the " Messiah " for the first time at a concert in Brisbane . |
| 11 | One day , in Times Square , Dustin looked up and saw his face for the first time on a billboard . |
| 12 | Not for the first time on a trip , the naturalist , writer and traveller Redmond O'Hanlon fantasized about waking between crisp , dry sheets . |
| 13 | No it 's not fact that normal go up the private estates , this is probably your first time on a council estate , the bloody hell it 's come from . |
| 14 | I 've really been looking forward to flying — it will be my first time on a plane . ’ |
| 15 | People who hear themselves for the first time on a tape-recorder often find it hard to believe that the stranger talking is actually them . |
| 16 | For the residential section , she travelled to Cumbria and learnt how to sail her first time on a boat . |
| 17 | It 's your first time on a horse , for Pete 's sake . |
| 18 | ‘ My original recreation was riding , ’ said the amiable grandfather , who recalled his first time on a horse at the age of eight a wooden horse at Middletonin-Teesdale show . |
| 19 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 20 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 21 | It was therefore at the next Congress in August 1959 in Wiesbaden , Germany , that the BDDA participated for the first time as a member country with an official delegation of ten : Dr Eric Greenaway . |
| 22 | He had heard it the first time as a child , in his grandfather 's yurt on the Khirgiz , and going to Burun 's quarters had found him awake also . |
| 23 | But most of all , they have the determination to put their name on the trophy for the first time as a tribute to club president George Blower who tragically died at the end of a league game almost four weeks ago . |
| 24 | The book is published now for the first time as a result of scholarly study by Steve Joshua Heims of the cybernetics group of the late 1940s . |
| 25 | As Doohan built up a lead of almost seven seconds , Rainey settled for second place on his Yamaha , 12 seconds clear of third-placed Daryl Beattie , of Australia , riding a Rothmans Honda for the first time as a replacement for the injured Wayne Gardner . |
| 26 | The party 's Anglican commitment was as firm as ever before 1914 , even though it was being led for the first time by a man who was not an Anglican himself . |
| 27 | Léonie had just been kissed for the first time by a boy . |
| 28 | In August 1990 , the Securities Association , the self-regulatory body covering share dealers and advisers , acted for the first time against a broker found guilty of ‘ churning ’ his clients ' portfolios . |
| 29 | Now , however , having regard to what was learnt by C.N.L. 's counsel whilst sitting in court during the successful appeal , they are for the first time in a position to raise a plea of justification . |
| 30 | History in the making at Barbados : West Indian and South African players and officials meet for the first time in a Test match . |