Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] i [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | CARL LLEWELLYN ( Party Politics ) : ‘ As soon as he jumped the first fence I gained in confidence . |
| 2 | I sometimes think back to that first talk I did in Mr Taylor 's class , and how scared I was . |
| 3 | The first teacher I had in the infants was a Miss , she had a bad habit of rapping you across the knuckles with a ruler , and there was a pupil teacher Miss , funny thing about that is she , she , she came up to , Mr came up as headmaster and Miss came as a teacher , she was a pupil teacher it was n't necessary to go to college and get degrees in the , she , she used to be a pupil teacher in the infant school when I was at school , and Miss was actually at the sunshine school when my daughter was going to school . |
| 4 | But Fate took a hand , as it has a habit of doing , and the first person I encountered in the hut was Barbara , who was putting the final touches to her make-up before going to the dance herself . |
| 5 | He was the first friend I made in the West Riding , when we were both new to the cold Yorkshire wastes . |
| 6 | I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience |
| 7 | ‘ Trust is the first quality I require in those who work close to me . ’ |
| 8 | In the first round I eased in third behind Pavoni and Bryzgin . |
| 9 | The first thing I learned in running the Grand Canyon are The Rules . |
| 10 | The first time I walked in the park , it was marvellous . |
| 11 | Cos once er I mean about the s third time the , no the first time I went in the f in the rapid that was all |
| 12 | You know the first time I came in this country cos it was not decimal yet |
| 13 | The first time I appeared in the outfit I was ribbed mercilessly . |
| 14 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 15 | Last spring I sat in the Windows on the World restaurant on the 45th floor of the World Trade Center , whose twin towers are a New York landmark . |
| 16 | His mouth twisted into an angry line as he snarled , ‘ Women are the last commodity I need in my life . ’ |
| 17 | Last night I drive in my little old car to return a book to the farm manager . |
| 18 | The less fortunate have to stand on aching pins as the carriage , unventilated ( it is impossible to fit air conditioning to tube trains as the tunnels are too small to acccommodate such devices ) , grows hot and foetid ; even the lines of Shirley Lim 's Modern Secrets up there amongst the ads- ‘ Last night I dreamt in Chinese/Eating Yankee Shredded Wheat ’ -brought to us by ‘ Poems On The Underground , ’ a ruse to make tube travel a little less stressful , can not alleviate the strap-hangers ' gloom and frustration . |
| 19 | The third month I spent in Brittany at Sable d'Or ; there I made friends with an elderly , bearded fisherman called Pierre . |
| 20 | The last game I played in China was in November 1990 . |
| 21 | And the last thing I need in my life right now is a madman . ’ |
| 22 | If it 's the last thing I do in this life … ’ |
| 23 | And I remembered an early line from ‘ Othello ’ where Iago says something like , ‘ I 'll get that bloody Moor if it 's the last thing I do in my life . ’ |
| 24 | I thought , ‘ If that 's good enough for Shakespeare , it 's good enough for me ’ , and so King Rat starts , ‘ I 'm going to get that bloody bastard if it 's the last thing I do in my life . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ That 's the last thing I have in mind . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm staying at the farmhouse — last year I lodged in the village . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm getting an automatic next time I go in there . |
| 28 | On my last visit I swam in the Grjótagjá pools — a true delight for someone so young and so unused to mixed nude dipping . |
| 29 | Last time I went in everyone got called ! |
| 30 | Well I have n't been in there for years mind but when , the last time I went in there the clothes was lovely . |