Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea . |
| 2 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 3 | The need to have my own quiet corner became a priority during my first Easter in Cotherstone , when I was a bit depressed . |
| 4 | During my first year as a prisoner some of us were moved for a time from Silesia to a camp in the Polish corridor . |
| 5 | DURING my first year of A levels I noticed a swelling in one of my testes . |
| 6 | During my first year at the Boys ' School in 1922 , Bonfire Night was held on a Saturday ; November 5th falling on a Sunday that year . |
| 7 | It was during my first year at university that I first came across it in a book by James Tyler Kent in a public library . |
| 8 | In the summer of 1924 , during my first year at Eton , Ras Tafari , later to be Emperor Haile Selassie but at that time Regent , paid a State Visit to England and invited my mother and me to call on him in London . |
| 9 | During my first year at Lancaster , the new university ( founded in 1964 ) grew very quickly , and we were able to develop the study of linguistics by appointing more staff . |
| 10 | His son , Wilfred , a pupil-teacher at St. Martin 's , taught me during my first year in the Boys ' School . |
| 11 | During my first round at the Masters I four-putted the second green and a member of the gallery shouted ‘ welcome to Augusta ’ . |
| 12 | During my first dinner in a Goan house I was astonished to see the ladies greet each other with kisses on both cheeks . |
| 13 | In fact , during my first days under Mr Farraday , I was once or twice quite astounded by some of the things he would say to me . |
| 14 | ‘ During my first season at West we only won 13 games and that was against local opposition . |
| 15 | ‘ I won close to Pounds 100,000 in four years on the tour — £60,000 of that during my first season in 1988 . |
| 16 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 17 | WITH nearly 20 years of trouble-free driving behind me , I was relatively confident and assured when I switched on the ignition for my first lesson in advanced driving . |
| 18 | I have Phil to thank for my first break on the Cutters . |
| 19 | I had arrived for my first meeting with the North Downs Steam Railway which is managed by a friendly group of enthusiasts who are not prepared to be put off by a drop of rain , even if it was one of the heaviest storms of the summer . |
| 20 | I went up for my first term at York called Nigel and I came back as Oliver . |
| 21 | I went for my first visit to the therapist feeling panicky , nervous , hopeful and depressed . |
| 22 | To get somewhere for my caddying I felt I had to travel , and I left home for my first tournament in 1951 at St Andrews for the Amateur Championship . |
| 23 | The rock was unusual , but my Boston conglomerate experience helped a lot and the great protection boosted confidence for my first lead of the season . |
| 24 | After my first sight of him that sunny autumn morning in the gallery of the courtyard in the Palacio de Anaya , his face haunted me all day , and I dreamt of him during the night — a long , ecstatic dream of such acute sensual pleasure I woke up aching and exhausted by too much bliss . |
| 25 | After my first look at root directory I almost ran to the garden shed for my gardening tools . |
| 26 | After my first spell of night duty I collapsed into bed and slept for nineteen hours . |
| 27 | ‘ But I 'm certainly a lot happier than after my first match at Liverpool ! |
| 28 | ‘ I definitely began to feel more mature as a photographer after my first visit to Africa ’ , he says . |
| 29 | About two weeks after my first visit to the capital , I was visited by one of the King 's most important officials . |
| 30 | I HAVE just returned home after my first visit to Glasgow . |