Example sentences of "the first time [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first time one person whispered in the ear of another to make or break a third person 's reputation , then public relations was born . |
| 2 | Last week it admitted its 400th member , the Swedish-owned United Securities Fondkommission , the first time that level has been reached in its 300-year history . |
| 3 | It does n't , if you like , make sense and the key year , as I say , is nineteen seventy eight because that was the first time that spending on overseas holidays exceeded the spending on U K holidays . |
| 4 | ( This , incidentally , was the first time that Boy had heard Madame refer to herself as Mother . ) |
| 5 | It indicated for the first time that quantum theory , which had been developed to account for atomic phenomena , still remained successful when applied to nuclei , systems which are a hundred thousand times smaller . |
| 6 | It 's the first time that protection against meningitis has been offered as a routine childhood immunisation , as Jessica Fowle reports |
| 7 | He is trying to joke , she senses he is at a loss for the first time that afternoon . |
| 8 | Lying there she was aware for the first time that night of Maggie above her and Rachel below her ; both , she imagined , sleeping sweetly , and again the grinding weight of compassion and guilt swept over her . |
| 9 | It was the first time that night Bob had displayed any real emotion . |
| 10 | For the first time that night , he felt lucky . |
| 11 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 12 | Although children will already have had everyday experiences with water this may be the first time that water has been offered to them as a material to play and experiment with . |
| 13 | This was not the first time that water had been collected in bulk , but hitherto those who indulged in the practice had generally been powerful bodies , like water or railway companies , who had acted under powers given them by legislation which at the same time made them liable for harm done by its escape . |
| 14 | For the first time that year she sniffed autumn . |
| 15 | When they entered the house one of the brothers reached for the bottle of whiskey and poured four large glasses for the first time that day . |
| 16 | The excitement of delving into the unknown was mine for the first time that day . |
| 17 | He urged his horse on home , and for the first time that day it responded by breaking into a trot for a few yards , until it decided that it was more comfortable to walk . |
| 18 | She said , ‘ I expect it 'll be something you 'll remember and treasure for the rest of your lives , ’ and Carrie was pleased because she sounded like herself for the first time that day . |
| 19 | I was beginning to understand a lot I 'd never known about before , and for the first time that day Toby 's fatal unthinking words came back to me : " One day she 'll have a baby without ever having understood what love really means . " |
| 20 | He opened the letter , saw the name at the bottom , and smiled for the first time that day . |
| 21 | Not for the first time that day , the Doctor was to be proved wrong . |
| 22 | For the first time that day , he felt the ache of loss , and without real reason . |
| 23 | Ms Sultana , 34 , met her husband for the first time that day . |
| 24 | One smack with the whip — the first time that Mill Reef had received such encouragement since the Guineas — and he was through a gap between Hallez and Ortis with less than two furlongs to race . |
| 25 | For the first time that weekend the rain had stopped , and although it was still overcast we could make out something of the beauties of the landscape . |
| 26 | There were still tears in her eyes , but for the first time that weekend there was colour in her cheeks as well . |
| 27 | ‘ It was also the first time that steam , which is the lifeblood of THORP was introduced into the highly active area . ’ |
| 28 | Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all . |
| 29 | It constituted the first comprehensive review of management development since the mid-1970s , and the first time that management development requirements were discussed nationally in the context of an explicit notion of ‘ management ’ . |
| 30 | Although government and rebels had met briefly in 1987 , it was the first time that army officers had agreed to talk with URNG representatives . |