Example sentences of "first thing i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing I sent to London magazine Girl About Town , a light-hearted article about computer dating , was accepted . |
| 2 | The first thing I noticed on getting into the ground was that the Leeds fans were making most , no , all of the noise in the ground . |
| 3 | But driver safety was far from being Jackie 's only hobby horse and the first thing I noticed about Jackie — and I do n't think he 'll hold it against me to say so — was his incredible garrulity . |
| 4 | The first thing I noticed about her was her leg callipers and crutches , but by the second day her disability had been overshadowed by her strength of character . |
| 5 | the first thing I noticed about you when you walked in was you 'd got , you 'd got that 's on the top of my eyes by the way , not the bottom because of our |
| 6 | The first thing I said to the commissioning editors when I met them is that I would not commission one programme . |
| 7 | That were first thing I said to her this morning , I says d' ya ask |
| 8 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 9 | It 's the first thing I learnt about traditional Chinese stir frying and it 's the most important clue to the whole principle of the Wok — things happen fast . |
| 10 | The first thing I did at Bangkok Airport was book by flight back . |
| 11 | Thanks for a great mag , which is the first thing I grab on my trips home , being a subscriber ! |
| 12 | ‘ The first thing I learned about nutrition as a nurse was that white food — fish and potatoes , for example — on white plates , with a white parsley sauce is unappetising purely because of its boring appearance . |
| 13 | The first thing I learned in running the Grand Canyon are The Rules . |
| 14 | It 's the first thing I look at when I wake up , the last thing at night . |