Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] my [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | South bank as well 'cause that 's where I started , where I got my first board ever . |
| 2 | I watch the familiar shops and houses go by ; Mum 's old gift shop ( now a video shop ) ; the Arms , where I had my first pint ; Dad 's old garage , still doing business . |
| 3 | Prices ( including flights ) based on the Taj Holiday Village where I stayed my first week start at £566 per person for seven days ' bed and breakfast ( £738 for fourteen days ) . |
| 4 | where you kept my first cautionary letters . |
| 5 | It was on one of these weekend trips to Regina that I wrote my first outside interview for the paper — an interview with John Philip Sousa . |
| 6 | But the old market square was still there , the ferry to North Shields ; Ocean Road , the Town Hall , the Library , Trow Rocks , the sands , the pier … . ft was on the pier that I made my first stumbling attempts to start writing poetry on my own again ; my very own poetry : |
| 7 | It was when I was fifteen or sixteen that I committed my first big offence . |
| 8 | But it was in Colchester Park that I had my first lesson in conservation in microcosm , if you like . |
| 9 | But it was not until 1990 that I had my first spawning , and raised fry . |
| 10 | It was not until many years later when I was a principal inspector in 1965 that I had my first direct encounter with ICAO itself . |
| 11 | ‘ It was all thanks to a woman at the meeting today that I had my first inkling of what had really been going on . ’ |
| 12 | It was only when I was in Holland that I had my first serious doubts that I might actually fail and have to marry Janice — in which case there was no way I would wish to claim custody . ’ |
| 13 | It would have been so easy and commonplace to move into some bushes ; but my partner insisted that I light my second candle . |
| 14 | It was only after moving to Llanberis that I did my next winter route in Wales — a quick solo of Sinister Gully . |
| 15 | Well , I have been following this mailing list and have yet to post a message , but am sad to see that it is under these circumstances that I post my first … |
| 16 | He was picked to run in the London Schools at Crystal Palace but withdrew , so I had my first opportunity to run outside the immediate neighbourhood of school and borough , in a new environment on an international track . |
| 17 | At the end of summer there were still patches of old snow on the sheltered slopes of the Cirque des Pessons , and I wrote my first poem about Andorra : |
| 18 | I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink . |
| 19 | When we were seated facing each other again she gave me a ball of pink wool and a pair of knitting needles and I had my first lesson in how to knit properly without dropping stitches . |
| 20 | He was quite near , jostling among the spectators , and I had my first close look at the wild-eyed little goblin who had plagued me . |
| 21 | When I reached the pit bottom , there was approximately three feet of water at the pit bottom and I had my first experience of water in the mines . |
| 22 | Excepting for German reconnaissance aircraft which shadowed the convoy and a number of abortive U-boat attacks , we all arrived safely and I had my first run ashore in a foreign country . |
| 23 | She seated me on her right , and I made my first direct pass as soon as we sat down . |
| 24 | And I smoked my last cigarette years ago right here in Sheffield , England . ’ |
| 25 | But the path took me back into darkness and I felt my first real twinge of panic . |
| 26 | Crossbills and red squirrels showered stripped pinecones around me , and I saw my first crested tits , trapezing in the canopy . |
| 27 | ‘ And I suppose my first step on the path would be to tell you where the jade is ? ’ |
| 28 | If the Fruity Party fields three candidates in a constituency election ; if I give my first preference to Apple and second to Banana ; if I give my third preference not to Cherry but to Hazel of the Nutty Party ; and if finally , that third preference becomes an effective vote , it will unquestionably be a vote against the Fruity Party that I was supporting with my first and second preferences . |
| 29 | If the Fruity Party fields three candidates in a constituency election ; if I give my first preference to Apple and second to Banana ; if I give my third preference not to Cherry but to Hazel of the Nutty Party ; and if finally , that third preference becomes an effective vote , it will unquestionably be a vote against the Fruity Party that I was supporting with my first and second preferences . |
| 30 | I was not even aware that , until I had my first bought suit , that flies had been invented ! |