Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] the first [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Yeah it is , I mean the first time I bought it |
2 | On one of these trips to London when I was at school , good when we went with the Brownies , I went two or three times and er , one time when I was a bit older , I mean the first time I went as I say I was only about seven , but , when I was a bit older I went again , they said if |
3 | times , I forget the first time I had her . |
4 | I remember the first day I met him . |
5 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
6 | I remember the first gig I went to in Cleveland , the grand piano was two feet too short . |
7 | And I remember the first talkie I ever heard , I walked in the elite one night , with the wife and er as we walked in we hear a chap says I 'm I am . |
8 | ‘ I remember the first time we went to bed and did the business . |
9 | I remember the first time I offered Dana one of these cigarettes : he accepted one , and I then took one myself . |
10 | I remember the first time I used the frail I got a clout o' the skull that I 'd remember . |
11 | " I remember the first time I tried that , " said Kian . |
12 | I remember the first time I saw him , appearing out of the winter darkness in that unmade-up lane outside his house in Greenwich . |
13 | ‘ I remember the first time I met Les very well . |
14 | Cos th I remember the first time I went down that way over the bridge . |
15 | It 's cos they do n't go out see and when they do go out I remember the first time I took them down the park , they were like monkeys |
16 | He stepped closer to John Russell 's roan horse and I remember the first thing he said . |
17 | If you want to field an Empire army , I believe the first question you should ask yourself is what sort of player you are . |
18 | I bet the first thing she says hello lovey ! |
19 | I think the first ones we had were about nineteen thirty six I believe . |
20 | ‘ I think the first clue I had that I might still be on the team was when your mum pitched up to inspect the body . ’ |
21 | I think the first evidence we have of that , is when Brocklehurst has placed her on the stool and publicly humiliated her . |
22 | Can I just just just move on cos I think the first thing we 're gon na pick up on this is this entitlement business again . |
23 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |
24 | I think the first thing you 're going to need from any candidate is that they 're going to have to believe in Europe . |
25 | ‘ I think the first thing I tend to do ’ , said an area supervisor , ‘ is … to look at the normal working standards normally applied and see whether they would be adequate to protect the river ; and you then take into account the flow , the volume of the discharge or the rate of flow of the discharge and the volume . ’ |
26 | ‘ I think the first thing I saw was the isolation of each . |
27 | I think the first answer I must give you is , is simply in terms of my personal biography . |
28 | ‘ I think the first time they 'd felt they must accept an honest mistake . |
29 | I think the first time I saw Day At The Beach they had it written on the wrong strings . |
30 | I think the first time I remember that I thought , Lord that just looked like a dance advertised through the window . |