Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pron] [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 ALTHOUGH I promised you last week that I 'd bring details of the all Ireland Schools teams competition this week , I 'm afraid that I do n't have full details to hand as yet , so I 'll hold it over to next week .
5 ALTHOUGH I promised you last week that I 'd bring details of the all Ireland Schools teams competition this week , I 'm afraid that I do n't have full details to hand as yet , so I 'll hold it over to next week .
6 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 .
7 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 :
8 It was when I was fifteen or sixteen that I committed my first big offence .
9 But it was in Colchester Park that I had my first lesson in conservation in microcosm , if you like .
10 But it was not until 1990 that I had my first spawning , and raised fry .
11 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 .
12 ‘ It was all thanks to a woman at the meeting today that I had my first inkling of what had really been going on . ’
13 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 . ’
14 It would have been so easy and commonplace to move into some bushes ; but my partner insisted that I light my second candle .
15 It was only after moving to Llanberis that I did my next winter route in Wales — a quick solo of Sinister Gully .
16 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
17 ‘ I 'm not afraid to admit that I wanted you last night , more than I 've wanted any woman for a long time . ’
18 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 .
19 Satan 's miaowing , so I feed him first .
20 In those days I used to hang out at the Giaconda Cafe in Denmark Street where all broke musicians hang out , and I remember his first single came out and he dragged me into the record store next door , Francis Day & Hunter , and he said , ‘ Have a listen to this ’ .
21 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 :
22 So she had it first , you had it second erm daddy had it third and I had it fourth .
23 I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show .
29 She seated me on her right , and I made my first direct pass as soon as we sat down .
30 Hamilton and I spent our last night in Rome at a very respectable hotel on the Via Garibaldi , near the high walls of the prison .
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