Example sentences of "first [noun sg] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman , thank , thank you very much indeed erm Chairman , I will in fact and er perhaps if I read that in the first instance I have n't circulated it erm if I read that the first instance it will set the of what I have to say . |
| 2 | Dawson originally trained in art and design at the London College of Furniture , ‘ because it was the first course I got on . ’ |
| 3 | Dawson originally trained in art and design at the London College of Furniture , ‘ because it was the first course I got on . ’ |
| 4 | First mention I 've actually seen in months . |
| 5 | In the first chapter I dealt briefly with some of the major ways in which the global system has been categorized . |
| 6 | With the first stroke I have already reached the end , said Picasso . |
| 7 | She was the first pig I 'd ever met , and she set me thinking , and reading up on pigs . |
| 8 | It was the first funeral I had ever been to where there was genuine laughter . |
| 9 | In the first place I consider only a very small , very non-random set of examples , only four of them in any detail . |
| 10 | In the first place I do not know exactly what it was like in all its details . |
| 11 | In the first place I do not accept the representative theory of perception . |
| 12 | She says : ‘ It happened the first evening I arrived there . |
| 13 | It 's the first job I 'd ever had you see , and then erm I , I suppose my next job was erm recording the bus mileage . |
| 14 | Yeah , but I this will be the first match I have n't played this season . |
| 15 | In my first article I explained why there might be special difficulties for parents educated in Asia , as expectations differ . |
| 16 | Crawford was the first person I came across in all the rambles who immediately saw the historical value of JTR 's records . |
| 17 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 18 | She said , ‘ She 's the first person I 've ever known die , in my life . ’ |
| 19 | That 's a point , erm first person I 've ever known to be bored with last night at the . |
| 20 | I could do it , yeah , cos like my first night I did n't realise I was coughing so much but erm , her mum heard me , she said in the morning but |
| 21 | And the first night I arrived there , there was no one even to greet me . |
| 22 | But the first criticism I regard as entirely correct and these quite inadequate findings and reasons did not deal with this aspect of the case at all . |
| 23 | On that first day I had little thought to spare for Parma itself , but gradually I came to realize how fortunate I was to go to school in a city that was both beautiful and intensely interesting . |
| 24 | Only three could read , and none could write , so at the end of my first day I felt quite depressed at the thought of the hard work ahead of me . |
| 25 | After my first day I felt really tired when I got home , as that day was the longest day of my life . |
| 26 | ‘ On my first day I felt so self-conscious , like a country bumpkin . ’ |
| 27 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 28 | Right from the first day I worked hard , no longer rested on my oars and as a result topped the class list . |
| 29 | And , the first day I started right enough , they were awful kind , awful kind they were English people , I think . |
| 30 | Er the first day I did n't stay dinner . |