Example sentences of "[pers pn] first [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a fine clear sunny morning in the middle of September when I first walked into the grounds of the ‘ Western . ’ |
| 2 | The Minister may recall that it is almost a year since I first raised in the House the matter of the proposed incinerator in Renfrew . |
| 3 | Mohammed I first knew as a shepherd boy ; now he is a middle-aged businessman with interests in innovative farming and trading , the owner of a shop and cafe , a professional mountain guide and trek organiser . |
| 4 | My hair jumps as I first go into the deep end |
| 5 | I do n't do it when I first go to a place . |
| 6 | I first go through the odd numbers in a seemingly random fashion 1 , 5,3,7 , 11 , 9 and then downwards with the even numbers 12 , 8 , 10 , 6,2,4 . |
| 7 | I did recall you were from Danu , so when I first read about the troubles there I became somewhat anxious on your behalf . |
| 8 | Importantly , this document does not refer to Louis Hotteterre , the brother of Nicolas ( dit Colin ) , who lived on the rue Marmousets in the parish of Ste Marie Magdelaine , but to the Louis whom I first identified in an earlier article : a letter written in 1712 by the French oboist Louis Rousselet mentions that he had left a musette for repair with Louis Hotteterre , who lived ‘ proche le Pon [ sic ] Marie ’ . |
| 9 | Wynne-Jones I first met before the Second World War in the subterranean Balliol-Trinity physical laboratory at Oxford , where all the chemical kinetics were said to be catalysed by cigarette smoke . |
| 10 | What had been only a dense red glow when I first looked into the chamber was now a torrent of liquid flame . |
| 11 | I swear his nose had n't been broken when I first stepped into the car ! |
| 12 | I first ran across the new range of Eggle guitars at this year 's Northern Music Show and was stunned by the beautiful , figured tops and obvious quality of workmanship . |
| 13 | I was shocked when I first went into the Marsden and saw all these people with no hair , very white , being wheeled around in wheel chairs with cannulas and drips and looking very sickly . |
| 14 | Unfortunately it is a very barren group , and when I first went to the southern hemisphere I had difficulty in identifying the pole star , Sigma Octantis , which is only of magnitude 5.5 , and is none too easy to see with the naked eye unless the sky is really dark and clear . |
| 15 | And when I first went to the business , they did n't have fruit like they have now , everyday you know . |
| 16 | When I first went to the ground a couple of months ago , I would n't have thought it was possible . |
| 17 | She came with me when I first went on the Pill . |
| 18 | Er there , there 'll be a very small number of houses now which are substandard , compared with what there was in nineteen fifty four when I first went on the council . |
| 19 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
| 20 | He recalls : ‘ I had a bad name when I first came into the league because I skated round trying to hit as many Canadians as possible to get myself noticed . |
| 21 | I remembered the way I had gone crazy when I first came into the Star Zoo . |
| 22 | I used to sweep up sometimes when I first came to the Castle . ’ |
| 23 | When I first came to the Commission , cases like these caused more anxiety and provoked more anger and complaint than any others we dealt with . |
| 24 | When I first came to the group , I was very much in the Tarzan role . |
| 25 | And er when I first came to the shop , the mo m A lot of them used to come by train and you know taxis or meeting and at the station and and away from Holyhead they used to stop by the shop for fruit . |
| 26 | When I first came to the region I had thoughts of using a bike for a lot of short travelling . |
| 27 | V.W. I 'm not quite the loony that I was seen to be six years ago , when I first came in the school . |
| 28 | From the moment I first thought of the play , I thought he 'd be ideal for the part . |
| 29 | ‘ I was 21 when I first wrote for the NME . |
| 30 | ‘ When I first heard about the Food Addict 's Diet I was about 12st 8lb , ’ says Andrea Smith , 34 , of Harpenden , Hertfordshire , who 's married with two children : Hannah , seven , and Nick , three . |