Socially marooned, I discovered, for the first time, really, the escape of reading.
These are a few particulars I discovered for the first time in John Carey's biography of Golding.
When I was applying for colleges, I discovered for the first time that the colleges I wanted to go to all had Jewish quotas.
He gave up music for the duration to help out, because "I discovered for the first time there was something more important than music".
"I, despite the rain, would have continued on the road, I felt far from everything and everyone, and distance—I discovered for the first time extinguished in me every tie and every worry," Lenu says.
After negotiating a second traffic jam, I discovered for the first time that Corbyn had used the passage almost exactly in the form I offered it to him (and others).
It is watchable, though, of course, easily mocked: I discovered for myself recently that the joke about adding "-round" to the hero's surname is so prevalent online that it has almost caused Twitter to crash.
Many I discovered for the first time, such as Bernard Levin's TV crits from the 50s and, on the same theme, a couple of absolutely belting ones from Nancy BaNancymith.
Farage has the political equivalent of what musicians call perfect pitch (and is a born glad-hander as I discovered for myself a few years ago).
"Like most people," Rebecca Turner explained, "the first application I discovered for lucid dreaming was escapism".
