Example sentences of "[pers pn] said the first [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I said , they 're just coming down the road , I said the first thing your father 'll say , has it got a plug on it ?
2 but you 're on about something else , you said the first thing I 'd do , that 's got nothing to do with Harold Wilson the first thing I if I were in power
3 He said the first day I went , I , I never sold anything except a couple of por a bit dubious , so he cooked half a dozen sausages , one bit of fish and did a few chips and said I bet we 'll be sitting here all day well every bugger come for fish and chips , had n't got none had they !
4 He said the first verb he 'd learned was ‘ to love ’ and the first noun ‘ a table ’ , bizarre beginnings to a vocabulary with no connection between the parts .
5 you know what he said the first time we went into sociology I mean I feel a bit like you must of felt then
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