Last night, for the first time maybe, he didn't do those things".
"Anybody flies in the first time, maybe they can fly out.
He was the happy sort, he'd told her on the chat line, not the first time, maybe the third or fourth.
For the first time maybe ever, fans from LA and Boston were jealous of fans from Cleveland.
He said, 'Didn't we do it right the first time?' Maybe the ultimate respect to show the music you love is never to try to emulate it".
But Gordon, for the first time maybe since his classic 2007 battle with Johnson for the championship, said he thought his team could keep pace with Johnson, his onetime protégé.
"I thought for the first time, 'Maybe this won't last.'" Ed's Second Story Theater company had gone from selling out shows before the recession to struggling to fill seats.
We'll never know what it's like to experience the Fifth's opening for the first time – maybe honouring Beethoven's spirit means programming four hours of today's newest scores.
"It was just so nice to see the guys again, and I think for the first time maybe Alecia and the other women started to understand a little bit of what we'd gone through over there".
But for Laird this break-up has its advantages: on emerging into the street he notices, "for the first time maybe", the teeming life from which the affair has insulated him, "the chaos, the smouldering traffic, / the litter, bystanders, what have you".
