Sentence examples for phrase for the first from inspiring English sources

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When I heard that phrase for the first time, I remember thinking: Wow.

An assistant district attorney, Charles A. Testagrossa, asked, "Did you ever say, 'Go get my gun?' " "Did I — " Mr. Guzman replied, squinting as if hearing the phrase for the first time.

Yorke described hearing the phrase for the first time as a "formative moment".

At one late night meeting, planning a speech Barton was to give in the Sydney suburb of Ashfield, Barton coined the phrase "For the first time, we have a nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation"; Garran recalled that the now famous phrase "would have been unrecorded if I had not happened to jot it down".

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He said it gingerly, like a foreign exchange student trying out his Berlitz phrases abroad for the first time.

I loved the term ANKLE DEEP for the water level in kiddie pools, and HAVE NO IDEA is a great phrase that appears for the first time today.

For the next three years the Heath administration zig-zagged, between rightwing and more centrist policies, between conciliation and confrontation, until, with the phrase "U-turn" for the first time in common political usage, it narrowly lost power at the February 1974 general election.

In an instant, I had become like my grandmothers in their last years, floating through life, uttering the same old phrases as if for the first time.

Indicator words or phrases such as "for the first time", "unique", "distinctive feature" and so on may also be used in order to detect things like new recipes or catalyst composition for the explored process.

Levine happened upon "Would you kindly" after working on marketing materials for the game that asked the reader hypothetical questions such as "Would you kill people, even innocent people, to survive?", later working that phrase into the first script for the game.

It is RB when the second phrase (the first noun phrase) should first be combined with the third phrase (the second noun phrase) (i.e., "the red necktie with stars"), and LB when the second phrase should first be combined with the first phrase (i.e., "the necktie with red stars").

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