Example sentences of "the first time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mid-century gold rush to Australia added further to the supply of diamonds , but it was the development of the South African mines that for the first time brought a dramatic increase in the volume of production . |
| 2 | For structural reforms in third world countries , KfW for the first time granted a special loan of 1.7 billion DM to the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) . |
| 3 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 4 | Senior British Government officials for the first time said yesterday that while a trip by two Tory strategists to the US during the campaign had been cleared by the Conservative Party chairman , Sir Norman Fowler , he had not told Mr Major . |
| 5 | Barton Lynch , sitting out the qualifying rounds and waiting for the main event , recalled the 1988 Billabong , which for the first time had been held at Pipeline . |
| 6 | Still the blueness when she groped back towards consciousness , but different now , as though the first time had just been her mind trying its new colours out . |
| 7 | The first time had been in anger — the second time something very different . |
| 8 | However , on the strength of findings by a joint historical commission formed in 1987 to resolve " blank spots " in Polish-Soviet relations , in March 1989 the Polish authorities for the first time had contradicted the official Soviet line and had openly accused the Soviet Union of responsibility [ see p. 36535 ] . |
| 9 | Representatives of West Berlin , which is not a constituent part of the Federal Republic , in both the Bundestag and Bundesrat have since May 1990 for the first time had full voting rights in both bodies . |
| 10 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 11 | To rid herself of the nightmare voice that for the first time had spoken clearly and terribly in the full rational light of day . |
| 12 | As she returned the firm handclasp Lindsey 's smiling gaze for the first time took in the neat , wide-belted white dress , topped by a dark cardigan . |
| 13 | Trusts for the first time made it easy to create a right in a person who would have been a third party at civil law . |
| 14 | Alcalá Galiano 's explanation was simple : ‘ the repugnance of the rank and file against embarking for America ’ for the first time made soldiers and sergeants receptive to ‘ the sublime and generous ideas of their officers ’ . |
| 15 | A ( Soviet ) DRA proposal at the Geneva talks in February 1987 for the first time made public a time frame for Soviet withdrawal , eighteen months , with no conditions attached to the process of ‘ national reconciliation ’ in Afghanistan . |
| 16 | On Feb. 6 the World Bank for the first time made major loans to Poland for structural adjustment purposes , totalling $360,000,000 , while indicating that loans in the pipeline could total five times that amount in 1990 . |
| 17 | In 1889 the Prevention of Cruelty and Protection of Children Act for the first time outlawed proven cruelty to children and allowed children in certain circumstances to be removed from their families to a place of safety , usually a charitable institution such as Barnardo 's . |
| 18 | She accepted a glass of water and for the first time looked round in order to take in the room and the people before her . |
| 19 | Shamlou stood before her , and for the first time looked properly at his victim . |
| 20 | Delegations attending for the first time came from Cambodia , Egypt ( with 250,000 French-speakers ) , Bulgaria ( with 350,000 ) , and Romania ( with 1,100,000 ) . |
| 21 | After that , strangely , for the first time began to feel the glow of achievement . |
| 22 | Her heart sank as she remembered the phone call which for the first time began to make sense . |
| 23 | He met the descendants of Lascar seamen or other immigrants who settled into Liverpool and for the first time saw the need for justice to an immigrant community . |
| 24 | The first time saw you with Clapton , you just used a guitar straight into a Boogie . |
| 25 | Despite Kipling 's dictum that " Never the twain shall meet " , the East had reached out and touched the West with a premonition , perhaps , of the planetary holism which was to grip our minds less than a century later when we walked on the moon , looked back , and for the first time saw the whole earth rising as a single bubble of life . |
| 26 | Aloud he said , ‘ Is Fergus completely lost to us ? ’ and for the first time saw the golden-eyed creature hesitate . |
| 27 | The year 1966 was when the number of people paying a TV licence for the first time exceeded the number paying a radio licence . |
| 28 | The Commission published a report on competition policy on June 24 , 1991 , in which it said that the number of intra-EC mergers among larger companies had in 1990 for the first time exceeded that of purely national mergers . |
| 29 | In a memorandum in that month of crisis the Ministry of Defence apparently for the first time addressed the issue of the foreign exchange costs of existing policy , in response to the claim by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the end of July that Britain 's overseas military expenditure was running at £140 million p.a . |
| 30 | The UK government has for the first time ruled out the award of oil and gas exploration licences in certain areas on environmental grounds . |