Example sentences of "[art] first [noun] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was the first patient I saw with pseudochyluria . |
| 2 | ‘ The first day I went into school wearing shalwar kameez a teacher said to me , ‘ Are you all right , Yasmin ? |
| 3 | I loved St Paul 's from the first day I walked through the gates , I suppose partly because no one told me off for working too hard . |
| 4 | Odd — I 've never dreamt about Cal , even though we 've been friends ever since we sat next to each other the first day I walked into that school . |
| 5 | I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience |
| 6 | erm when I went the first year I looked at them . |
| 7 | The first person I see at Birkdale is Gary player , and I ask him if he 's fixed up with a caddie . |
| 8 | In fact I was born in Manchester and Violet Carson ( alias Ena Sharples ) was the first person I introduced on TV when I was 20 . |
| 9 | And the first person I danced with was ‘ him ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I went to the Defence Ministry stand — but the first person I spoke to simply shrugged and walked away . |
| 11 | But Fate took a hand , as it has a habit of doing , and the first person I encountered in the hut was Barbara , who was putting the final touches to her make-up before going to the dance herself . |
| 12 | Then I darted breathless and sodden into the first hotel I came to . |
| 13 | ‘ The first dress I bought from Mainbocher was a model ; a lovely organdie embroidered with navy — the first short evening dress I ever had . |
| 14 | He was the first friend I made in the West Riding , when we were both new to the cold Yorkshire wastes . |
| 15 | Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things : |
| 16 | So I 've got me jeans on and the first word I says to him is so why have you shaved your moustache off Dave ? |
| 17 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 18 | " Combining mystery with history " : this was a phrase I invented ( or perhaps inadvertently cribbed ) for the blurb of the first novel I wrote under the pseudonym of Evelyn Hervey , The Governess , a story in which Miss Harriet Unwin in her first post as a governess in 1870s London finds herself accused of murder and has to pinpoint the real killer to save herself from the Old Bailey . |
| 19 | Er , we had a breeders ' meeting in October which was I enjoy them very much , I enjoy the the talk because it 's the first chance I get during the year when I can sit down and listen and I do n't have to worry about them generally , in another club , I do n't have to worry about minutes or anything , I just sit and listen and it 's great it , I really enjoy that . |
| 20 | ‘ My father bought the estate before the war for the milk , not ever intending to go there , but then when the war came we lived there , from about 1942 when I was four and the first things I remember in life were from there . ’ |
| 21 | Well , one of the first things I did on applying for this job was to announce my intention to end the repellent Billy Bullshit column . |
| 22 | So one of the first things I did with Clive after hypnotizing him was to ask him simple questions — ‘ What is your full name ? ’ , |
| 23 | In the first part I argue for the inclusion of gender awareness as a valid dimension of educational analysis of the arts and , as a vehicle for this argument , posit a set of four general criteria which might legitimately be used by arts educators as part of a re-evaluation of the arts curriculum in this regard . |
| 24 | ‘ One of the first memos I received after my release , when I was in Germany , was a one-line note ‘ Welcome Home — Terry ’ . |
| 25 | In the first round I eased in third behind Pavoni and Bryzgin . |
| 26 | The first resource I wan na talk about is not the resources , the Local Authority resources , the resources of the family . |
| 27 | The first time I went to prison I was nineteen . |
| 28 | The first time I went to prison I had already had the baby , but he was taken away from me in hospital . |
| 29 | Cos once er I mean about the s third time the , no the first time I went in the f in the rapid that was all |
| 30 | I remember that the first time I came to Semer Water was as a boy on my bike . |