The first time I looked through its magic lens, the clouds that surrounded my daily life rolled away.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

"I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

For the first time, I learned something about how to live with people of different religious beliefs."

VOA: special.2010.08.01

because I never trusted him, but I liked you when the first time I saw you.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

I was,for the first time, deeply satisfied with what life was giving me.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

"Magnolia is wonderful. The first time I went I got a red velvet and a dark chocolate with mocha frosting and split it with my best friend.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

He said it represents the first time an investigational H.I.V.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

"Before when it was my first time, I take the train on the other side,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

And so now I have a great time!" On the first day of South By Southwest 2010, word came of the death of singer-songwriter Alex Chilton.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

I did not know I can win that race, but from the first time in my life the experience, the world championships,the seniors, I could not believe it,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

first time that I saw people praying in that way.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

"Astronauts who are accustomed to views that you and I cannot really describe were moved to tears when they looked out the windows of the cupola for the first time tonight."

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

I don't recall what I gotfor my first Christmas, and I don't know when I went onmy first outdoor picnic, but I do remember the first time I heardthe sweetest voice in the wide world.

VOA: standard.other

"I feel so strongly that this country is headed, fiscally,in a horrible direction, and for the first time in my adult life, we have a Congress that will not listen to the people, and we are fed up and we want them to listen to us."

VOA: standard.2010.03.16