Example sentences of "[coord] i [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaks were the flavour of the year in 1983 , but the trouble was that neither Ken Clarke nor I had the first idea what report this was meant to be as there were no plans , secret or otherwise , for privatization . |
| 2 | And I remember the first talkie I ever heard , I walked in the elite one night , with the wife and er as we walked in we hear a chap says I 'm I am . |
| 3 | And I remember the first time , I poured a whole jugful of water in . |
| 4 | He stepped closer to John Russell 's roan horse and I remember the first thing he said . |
| 5 | I got her letter yesterday and I took the first plane . |
| 6 | The overture finishes to applause , the curtains open , thunder rumbles and lightning flashes to reveal me , arms raised skyward and apparently floating in midair , as a huge mirror silently descends and I speak the first lines : |
| 7 | I could n't find the entrance to the restaurant that night for a start , and I spent the first half hour of the evening circling the outside of the building looking for a way in — in full view of all the diners . |
| 8 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |
| 9 | For somewhat different reasons in each case , there is not entailment between I chose the first rose on the list and I chose the first flower on the list , nor between Mary was disappointed to receive a rose and Mary was disappointed to receive a flower ( perhaps she was expecting an orchid ? ) . |
| 10 | My timber all came from local sources : by pure chance one timber yard had recently acquired an elm butt and I purchased the first board ( a huge log sawn into 2in boards — the real stuff ) . |
| 11 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 12 | ‘ One paper asked me to pick the Derby winner and I picked the first four . |
| 13 | and er and then those Brownies got older and I started the first Girl Guides there |
| 14 | And I paid the first fine that I ever did . |
| 15 | And I missed the first game against Apoel because of the suspension I picked up . |
| 16 | And that 's because the third world is bigger than any other section whether you call it the first world or second world or whatever , and I think the first and second put together . |
| 17 | Now do n't take that too literally , certainly in sub zero temperatures and I think the first of December and to do so would I think er have er maybe with some risk of being in 's phrase stark raving bonkers but by that you may think I mean that I think we made a fair attempt to deal with the three principle issues which have caused so much annoyance to user groups , there 's a backlog in modification orders . |
| 18 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |
| 19 | ‘ No diet is easy and I found the first few days hard , but by the end of the first week my skin became clearer , my nails grew stronger and my hair was healthy and shining . |
| 20 | And you seeing what you 're playing tonight , I thought I ca n't , but I heard the first thing der der der , but then it goes der der der |
| 21 | But I mean the first step is always the hardest . |
| 22 | I 'm not a great fan , but I enjoyed the first one , The Tempest , enormously and the evening went in a flash . |
| 23 | But I left the first of her three Sunday night shows feeling vaguely let down after a set that mixed the great with the gaffs . |