Example sentences of "[art] first thing i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , and one of the great ironies is that when I 'm talking to students about the nature of history , one of the first things I try and say to them is ‘ Look , do n't have this idea that there 's a great bundle of documents lying in an attic , and this is the way that history works , that people make a sensational discovery and then they write a book about it . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ One of the first things I had to learn by heart when I went to Maythorpe House was a poem by an Englishman , Laurence Binyon . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So one of the first things I did with Clive after hypnotizing him was to ask him simple questions — ‘ What is your full name ? ’ , |
| 7 | The first things I did came a cropper . |
| 8 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 9 | The first thing I brought was service . |
| 10 | ‘ The first thing I thought when I saw myself on video was , ‘ Gosh , do I really look that bad ? ’ ’ confides Kitty , who has the problematic body of your standard middle-aged woman : potbelly , cellulite , stretch marks . |
| 11 | ‘ The first thing I thought was , ‘ Boy , am I fat . ’ ’ |
| 12 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 13 | ‘ They knew they had a hell of a battle on their hands and the first thing I stressed was that we had to fight to win the ball — and we did , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Andrew 's mother Janice , 23 , who was walking with them in nearby Haxby , said : ‘ The first thing I heard was Carol scream , then a bang . |
| 15 | Andrew 's mother Janice , 23 , who was walking with them in nearby Haxby , said : ‘ The first thing I heard was Carol scream , then a bang . |
| 16 | Well , I can tell you something ; I 'm on my own in this house from now on and I shall see to her bathing , and should he attempt to stop me , I 've told him what I 'll do ; I 'll brain him with the first thing I get my hands on . |
| 17 | The first thing I had to learn was that my parents ' use of guilt was not for my benefit but for theirs . |
| 18 | THE FIRST thing I had to do at the NME was draw a cucumber . |
| 19 | But now the first thing I saw were the lines on his face standing out like the lines on a charcoal drawing . |
| 20 | Practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train and walked along those roads again was Hairy Back and his dog , the Great Dane . |
| 21 | The first thing I saw was a batch of Biggles books , stacked beside several of their Kaiser 's War equivalents , written by a man called Percy F. Westerman . |
| 22 | ‘ I think the first thing I saw was the isolation of each . |
| 23 | When I came round my head was very bad and the first thing I saw was my father . |
| 24 | When I had reached the front , the first thing I saw was Granpa lying on the pavement , his head propped up on a box of apples and his face as white as a sheet . |
| 25 | The first thing I sent to London magazine Girl About Town , a light-hearted article about computer dating , was accepted . |
| 26 | But the first thing I 've got to say to you here and now is you 're no more capable of keeping a wife than of keeping a — ’ she seemed to search for the word , then brought out , ‘ rabbit . |
| 27 | Right , since I 've taken over my territory the first thing I 've seen , I 've got to educate my customers as in paperwork . |
| 28 | he had a biscuit with a cup of tea and he said that 's the first thing I 've had to eat |
| 29 | Yeah , the first thing I 've ever the first time I 've shaved my legs , I forgot the water . |
| 30 | The first thing I noticed as we arrived at the famous pot was a fixed caving rope leading down into the dark abyss , and I could n't resist scrambling across to peer in . |