Example sentences of "[verb] the first [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naming the first person I could think of , I answered St Francis — because he could have chosen to live a life of luxury and ease , but had in fact followed the principles of Christ in giving away all he owned and living a life of poverty . |
| 2 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 3 | I walked in through the door and , feeling a bit lost , I asked the first person I saw if he knew whether the Social Secretary was around . |
| 4 | ‘ I got the first ferry I could after I heard … |
| 5 | Yeah it is , I mean the first time I bought it |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | times , I forget the first time I had her . |
| 8 | Remembering the first time I 'd done the climb , back in 1964 , an echo of precise-edged delicacy tingled in my mind . |
| 9 | These hijras are very bad and very dirty ladies , ’ he had said the first time I tried to give Razia a lift in his car . |
| 10 | ‘ You would n't think it so unexpected if you 'd seen the first nightclub I bought . ’ |
| 11 | She says : ‘ It happened the first evening I arrived there . |
| 12 | I can hardly remember the first time I felt that we loved each other . |
| 13 | Y'know , I can remember the first time I wore them . |
| 14 | I can remember the first time I got drunk on Scotch . |
| 15 | I do n't know how much of it I remembered , cos I 've seen it so often now , mm , ca n't remember the first time I saw it Did n't know . |
| 16 | I can remember the first time I ever |
| 17 | It was a bit perplexing the first time I heard the chant though , because of the other associations that could be drawn from it ! |
| 18 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 19 | Though tragically killed in a recent motorbike accident , Madra was an undisputed maestro of the art , as well as an easy and informative friend whom I had known for some time , so it was a shock to witness the epic genius which came through him , and the transformation which both he and his audience underwent in that open village square the first time I saw him perform . |
| 20 | I remember the first day I met him . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I remember the first gig I went to in Cleveland , the grand piano was two feet too short . |
| 23 | I remember the first time I offered Dana one of these cigarettes : he accepted one , and I then took one myself . |
| 24 | I remember the first time I used the frail I got a clout o' the skull that I 'd remember . |
| 25 | " I remember the first time I tried that , " said Kian . |
| 26 | I remember the first time I saw him , appearing out of the winter darkness in that unmade-up lane outside his house in Greenwich . |
| 27 | ‘ I remember the first time I met Les very well . |
| 28 | Cos th I remember the first time I went down that way over the bridge . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | You know the first time I came in this country cos it was not decimal yet |