Example sentences of "[verb] me [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 2 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 3 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 4 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 5 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 6 | He referred me to the first of several psychiatrists I was to visit for a year . |
| 7 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 8 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 9 | Susan uses me for the first person pronoun [ G2 ] , and unmarked past tense [ G4 ] in tell , see , pick and run , and she has initial /t/ in ting , " thing " [ P17 ] . |
| 10 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
| 12 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 13 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 14 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 15 | If a Region would like a special overseas visitor not catered for in the Grid system , they can contact me in the first place . |
| 16 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 17 | I should have realized that Clive would dump me at the first opportunity , that he had in fact been looking for an excuse to do so . |
| 18 | It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us . |
| 19 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 20 | He saw me for the first time . |
| 21 | That 's really how he persuaded me in the first place to pretend … ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Craig hurt me in the first round , but Robert told me to work harder and it all went well . ’ |
| 23 | P'raps 'e knew 'e was in the wrong by provokin' me in the first place . |
| 24 | Also , while I have the chance , could I point out that in spite of the FRCC guide crediting me with the first ascent of the bolt ladder route named Fiery Cross ( Dry Grasp ) on Upper Falcon Crag , it has nothing to do with me or B. Henderson , listed as my second . |
| 25 | Your article should reach me by the first Friday of the month . |
| 26 | Two cherry berets took me through the first gate . |
| 27 | I 'd been hurt — the man I thought loved me had not only jilted me and stolen my money , but admitted that he had n't wanted me in the first place . |
| 28 | SEEING THE ARTICLE on the ‘ 109 in the July issue of FlyPast reminded me of the first time I saw it . |
| 29 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 30 | I was the one who mucked up his texts worse than any of the others , that 's what made him notice me in the first place . ’ |