Example sentences of "first time [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talking for the first time about his ordeal , Brian says : ‘ They left me in no doubt I was a leading suspect . |
| 2 | It was also a problem which enabled Labour 's new young leader , Neil Kinnock , to make his mark , perhaps for the first time since his election in October 1983 . |
| 3 | For the first time since his arrival , Wexford remembered that there was another child , a mongol , confined somewhere in an institution . |
| 4 | Sheldukher laughed heartily for the first time since his destruction of the Krondel constellation . |
| 5 | For almost the first time since his reappearance in her life Laura found herself wondering whether she and Ross could have done anything to save their marriage all those years ago . |
| 6 | DEFIANT Dave Beasant last night spoke for the first time since his week-end goalkeeping torment and insisted : ‘ I still want to play for Chelsea . ’ |
| 7 | Helena and Patrick Keegan will visit the country where their son , Paul , died in a battle to liberate it , for the first time since his death in February 1991 . |
| 8 | ‘ My name 's Stirling , ’ he said , almost as though we were meeting for the first time outside his Club in London . |
| 9 | THE policeman whose hand was sewn back on after it was horrifically severed by a Samurai sword has spoken publicly for the first time of his ordeal . |
| 10 | Rubberneck , for the first time of his life ( he no longer wished to be a part , not when people fought as animals ) , felt close to God . |
| 11 | BEVERLY Hills 90210 heart-throb Luke Perry has spoken for the first time of his nightmare childhood with a drunken father who beat up his mother . |
| 12 | The sense of failure that haloed his bowed head made Clare conscious for the first time of his identity as a person . |
| 13 | Only when Bert Rafferty was called to give evidence did Harriet Tremayne show any sign of breaking down , as she listened for the first time to his description of exactly what had happened on that harrowing morning . |
| 14 | Now on the seventeenth of September Mr met Peter on the defendant 's firm er for the first time at his office , where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm , for two reasons . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , former Tottenham player Gary Lineker 's Japanese adventure got underway when he trained for the first time with his Grampus Eight teammates at Nagoya yesterday . |
| 16 | Manager Graeme Souness had Steve Nicol and Rob Jones back in training yesterday , while Jan Molby trained for the first time after his ankle injury . |
| 17 | Thus when they flew up to Balmoral for the first time after his birth , the entire family travelled together , despite the merchants of doom who insisted they should never fly together in the same plane lest it crash and kill both heir and second-in-line to the throne . |
| 18 | When he attended St Mark 's , Dundela , for the first time after his conversion , he was repelled by the sense that ‘ these good Produsdands ’ went there to express party solidarity rather than religious feeling ; and he found his Irish relations almost universally repulsive . |
| 19 | He seemed embarrassed and stammered for the first time in his English . |
| 20 | I wonder what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first for the first time in his life ? |
| 21 | It was a crash course in survival , and in learning how to get on with people ; but when he made friends there , he knew , probably for the first time in his life , that he was liked for who he was and not what he was . |
| 22 | One young farmer , Shermani Yussef , said that for the first time in his life he had been forced to lease some of his land to cover his losses . |
| 23 | A high-ranking Saudi , carrying a gun for the first time in his life , said it was for use not against Iraqis but against ‘ certain other nationalities ’ . |
| 24 | He needed to do just that , for he was tired , morose and bitter and , for the first time in his life , feeling very insecure . |
| 25 | To his pleasant surprise he discovered that he was now able to think with an objective clarity which stemmed from the knowledge that he was now free for the first time in his life to speak his mind without fear or favour . |
| 26 | For the first time in his life he was free from corporate restraints , to say what he really thought . |
| 27 | Now , briefly , possibly for the very first time in his life , he felt helpless and miserable at one and the same time . |
| 28 | He wanted to bask in the developing closeness he and Jordan were enjoying , surfing sensorial highs , and being utterly open , perhaps for the first time in his life . |
| 29 | Less publicity shy was Stephen Quinn , publishing director of Vogue , the fashion magazine , who had voted Conservative for the first time in his life . |
| 30 | Nicky responded because , probably for the first time in his life , someone had shown trust in him and had treated him with respect . |