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Example sentences of "first [noun sg] i [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1	And I recommend to anybody who goes on the school , I 'm sure they do on the training course , that the first opportunity I would have to address erm the con er the staff meeting , you just say this is what I who I am this is why I 'm here I 've got a list of businesses which the school has provided with me already but I I will I may erm if I bump into you in the corridor I may just say do you know anybody else .
2	The first term I would have had lots of energy , even though I was tired from working here .
3	‘ If I was coming home tired , ’ said Whatham , ‘ a play by a dissident Czech playwright would not be the first programme I would turn on .
4	This 'll be my first attempt I would imagine that it wo n't make a lot of difference I could be wrong .
5	It 's the first question I 'd ask . ’
6	‘ The trouble with using a Hasselblad is that you black out after each shot , and in the first session I 'd cut off the arms in one or two shots , so I had to go back and re-shoot those .
7	That 's the first window I can see . ’
8	The first adjustment I would make would be to try positioning the three to six No. 6 shot at one inch gaps , starting ten inches from the hook as in diagram A.
9	The first point I 'd like to make is that the original decision letter dates from excuse me , twenty sixth of November nineteen eighty .
10	Erm the first point I 'd like to make erm on this issue erm is that Mr erm seems to have assessed this criterion solely with reference to landscape quality .
11	I should have liked to trample on the face of the first German I could find and kick him over and over again in the stomach .
12	In this first article I will retrace my first steps to Rennes-le-Chateau and the beginning of the mystery .
13	From his own first forest I shall find my brother once again .
14	‘ The first person I would phone should I wish to sign Davies would be the Widnes chairman Jim Mills and I have never done so . ’
15	I 'm sure if ever the occasion arises when I want advice on insurance , you 're the first person I 'll come to . ’
16	Naming the first person I could think of , I answered St Francis — because he could have chosen to live a life of luxury and ease , but had in fact followed the principles of Christ in giving away all he owned and living a life of poverty .
17	Not exactly the first person I 'd send on a Feile stage to confront a horde of lunatics crazed by a thunderstorm but Nanci Griffith 's gifts are more private and homely .
18	‘ If I were on holiday , Nigel would be the first person I 'd contact when I got back .
19	The first day I could walk on my own I walked out .
20	Er and the first gentleman I 'd like to call on er is Mister Anthony who is our Marketing Director to give us a market overview and assessment of the product opportunity .
21	The first ground I would call ‘ illegality , ’ the second ‘ irrationality ’ and the third ‘ procedural impropriety . ’
22	‘ The murder needed a cool head — not the first quality I would attribute to the Colonel . ’
23	I just went as I was and got on the first train I could find .
24	‘ I first started writing songs when I was about 14 , because I knew that the first song I 'd put down would be so crap I thought I 'd get all my ideas out of the way first , and then I 'd start getting all artistic , ’ explains Tony .
25	I can tell you , well not always but sometimes people from first sight I can tell .
26	The first assertion I would like to discuss is that the connection between the Christian faith and economic matters is indirect .
27	Because the first thing I shall do — the first real positive thing .
28	The first thing I would point to is that our training costs for last year averaged out at £5,100 per trainee .
29	‘ The very first thing I 'll do when I get 'ome is take her a bunch of flowers .
30	‘ First thing I must do is to sell the emeralds I inherited from my mother , they will bring me in enough to buy in leather and begin to trade again . ’