Example sentences of "the first [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This is the truth my lad and the first I made for was for the that , just off Canada , is is New Foundland ? |
| 32 | This was the first I had heard of Leslie 's alleged connection with ‘ D ’ Squadron . |
| 33 | The next few gybes were the first I had ever done with speed all the way through the turn , in fact , it happened so quickly that I could n't change the rig fast enough — so then I had to work on the rig change . |
| 34 | They were glow-worms , the first I had ever seen . |
| 35 | I said that this was the first I had heard of this claim . " |
| 36 | It was the first I had ever made , would you believe , and it was delicious ! |
| 37 | Two lesser kestrels , the first I had ever seen , flew to and fro above my head . |
| 38 | The journey I had just completed in the Arussi had been the first I had undertaken in the highlands of Abyssinia . |
| 39 | His wonderful book shows the number of new birds ( his wife painted them ) he found in Australia , and when with us he was much pleased with a white kangaroo-skin he preserved , the first I had ever seen . ’ |
| 40 | Because it was the first I saw , I suppose . |
| 41 | No , I just came over fields , I went along and followed a dyke , I turned left at the cafe , and then followed the first I saw going up . |
| 42 | The first I knew about it was Malcolm going on about rubber . |
| 43 | The first I knew about the plan to publish it in the newspapers tomorrow was a fax at midday today . ’ |
| 44 | ’ That was the first I knew about it , ’ he recalls . |
| 45 | The first I knew was a call from your old chum Roy Bliss not ten minutes ago . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ The first I knew he was in Beirut was when he rang me . ’ |
| 47 | The first I knew of this was when , seeing his bollard shape through the wrought-iron railings , my old humiliator Holland turned to me and said , placing predictably his malicious emphasis , ‘ There 's your ‘ guardian ’ , Wharton , come to take you off for some wanky-wanky , as usual . ’ |
| 48 | The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge . |
| 49 | And yet these hills are the first I knew and loved . |
| 50 | ‘ The first I knew of the positive test came in a letter from the Jockey Club . |
| 51 | Mr Johnstone said : ‘ The first I knew they were in Liverpool and on their way here . |
| 52 | That was the first I knew about it . |
| 53 | It was an all-night show , the first I 'd ever been to . |
| 54 | I 'd seen plenty of funerals , but this was the first I 'd been involved in and I was fascinated by the splendid flowers and the well-groomed horses of the hearse and I forgot , for a moment , my fear . |
| 55 | She had an ear infection and she told the doctor , but it was the first I 'd heard of it . |
| 56 | It had started to snow , the first I 'd seen since leaving Toronto . |
| 57 | The first I heard of my part in Talking Heads was when the script was pushed through my letterbox . |
| 58 | ‘ The first I heard was when Sharon came on the phone crying ‘ Our girls are dead , our girls are dead ’ . |
| 59 | This was the first poem Dana showed me , and one of the first I reworked with him . |
| 60 | ‘ The first I learned of either the debt or the judgement was when I got a letter about it this week . |