Example sentences of "i first [verb] [prep] " 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 | ‘ When I first come to Paris in 1979 I am desperately lonely . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I first knew about his infidelities when I was twelve , ’ she began . |
| 6 | about Murdoch the Australian inverted commas because that his , he was , I mean when I first , I , I do n't know the man but when I first knew about him in Australia he was a he supported the Labour government 's election in in Australia . |
| 7 | My hair jumps as I first go into the deep end |
| 8 | I do n't do it when I first go to a place . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I would not properly be able to understand the Mughals ' palace , said Dr Jaffery , unless I first read through their book of etiquette . |
| 11 | I did recall you were from Danu , so when I first read about the troubles there I became somewhat anxious on your behalf . |
| 12 | Just as I was fascinated with the reduction in inches from my own thighs when I first embarked on my special diet , I was equally interested to hear whether my trial team had benefited in the cellulite department and I included a question to this effect in my questionnaire . |
| 13 | There were red-throated pipits , a bird but rarely seen in Britain while on migration , and which I first identified on Out Skerries . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | I first met with Arnie it must 've been ‘ 44 , I did n't get to know him well then but he came out of that with one hell of a name as a field man . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | What had been only a dense red glow when I first looked into the chamber was now a torrent of liquid flame . |
| 18 | Well there was n't when I first looked at that file . |
| 19 | I swear his nose had n't been broken when I first stepped into the car ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The people who were on the radio when I first got into listening were really fine singers , people like Perry Como , Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby , but good as they were , they did n't inspire me to be like them . |
| 22 | When I first got into this thing I did n't ask too many questions . |
| 23 | ‘ I remember that when I first got to Vogue , it was all the old school . |
| 24 | This is why I had the right attitude when I first got to British Aerospace , anybody any , any anything anybody could tell me about how to fucking like that |
| 25 | I first felt like that when I slashed somebody . |
| 26 | However , this is not always easy to achieve , as I found out when I first returned to work in 1977 after my degree course . |
| 27 | I first went into therapy because my doctor could n't explain my constant flu symptoms , and because I carried so much tension . |
| 28 | When I first went into it , I knew nothing about Basque churches , so this one was a great and splendid surprise . |
| 29 | I really ca n't remember when I first went into John Sandoe 's shop in those squashed little cottages in Blacklands Terrace . |
| 30 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |