Example sentences of "first [noun] i [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first airedale I 'd seen for years , maybe the first since the two that shadowed my childhood . |
| 2 | By the end of that first evening I 'd discovered that , however much of a rebel your younger sister might be , you were made of tougher , truer steel . ’ |
| 3 | But I think we should , it 's like today , where was I , Battersea area , I think and it 's the first shop I 'd seen that actually had Chinese model manikins in the window , I thought they were sw pretty unusual . |
| 4 | He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was . |
| 5 | The welcome from son and wife was the first warmth I 'd felt in seven days . |
| 6 | The first leg of the first occasion I had flown horses from Heathrow was made bearable by a bottle of whisky and a regular itinerant groom . |
| 7 | Almost the first experiments I had made with the passive avoidance model after completing the work with Marie , and even before we had located IMHV and LPO as the sites of change , looked at the effects of training on protein synthesis in general , using the precursor techniques that have already been described in earlier chapters . |
| 8 | In fact , you were the first woman I 'd made love to in quite a long time , and I have n't even been interested in anyone since you were offered this job here and accepted it . |
| 9 | And of course And anyway , we got there , it was alright , and erm I had to fill this tractor , where it was , of course they 're going to make fun of me again , first morning I 'd got to get the tractor ready , and you know them , five gallon five gallon , things can happen at the time , and I have been had been supposed to be to get the hole at the top of the can , and not spill it you see . |
| 10 | It was the first news I had heard that Robin Summers , shot down over Brest a few weeks before , was alive . |
| 11 | This was the first news I had had of them since they had left Maymyo a fortnight earlier . |
| 12 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 13 | Right now there were quite there were a few people who gave me their books There were a few people who who gave me their books but I mean Erm this was the first homework I 'd given you actually that er that I 'd you know given so I would like to see an improvement in this performance please . |
| 14 | This was not the first time I had noticed the old enmity of the Norwegians for the Germans . |
| 15 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 16 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |
| 17 | It was the first time I had seen her in a pale colour — a light grey dress which made her seem shadowy . |
| 18 | It was the first time I had seen him reveal any emotion in his face , and it had something of the intensity of grief . |
| 19 | This was the first time I had seen her exercise her charm . |
| 20 | It was the first time I had seen a ship built from scratch and it was quite an experience to watch the steel plates being cut by their ingenious machine which controlled a cutter as it drew our the required shapes direct from the blueprint , converting everything to full scale as it cut . |
| 21 | It was not the first time I had seen " my " insects . |
| 22 | And they started that and they were sent out to this big villa and er that was the first time I had seen a continental headboard and er we could n't understand what it was you know . |
| 23 | It was the first time I had made this mistake , but Bamba immediately turned and ran back to us . |
| 24 | This was the first time I had kept anything from Sarah . |
| 25 | It was the first time I had heard orderly 's German : a rich hybrid language spoken with any English local accent which often achieved wonders when the phrases of classroom or grammar book produced only a blank expression and a shrug of the shoulders . |
| 26 | It was the first time I had heard it . |
| 27 | The first time I had heard this . |
| 28 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
| 29 | This was the first time I had dared to show my face in the D and F since our 7–2 drubbing in the Cup . |
| 30 | It was the first time I had come across the word . |