Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He gave me my first winner when I started training in 1987 , and today was the 100th race of his career and his 10th victory . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Going out there on a new board and catching my first wave when I had n't surfed Pipeline for a year only reaffirms my confidence . ’ |
| 3 | The very first sortie that I did when the war started was with No 77 Squadron in a Whitley to take pamphlets to Germany , flying in at the top end near Kiel and going throughout the Ruhr spreading these horrors of war on the germans telling them " you are wicked naughty Germans and if you do n't mend your ways Hamish will come back tomorrow night and drop some more paper on you " . |
| 4 | It was after the first snow and I followed the clanging ploughs up the Dale , bumping along between high white mounds till I reached old Mr Stokill 's gate . |
| 5 | We went in the Gra Grand just done the lounge at the Grand and when we had our first car and I went round to see mother and I said come on , we 'll go up to the , take you up to the Grand and have a drink . |
| 6 | ‘ Laura is our first child and I had n't got a clue what to do . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Something happened in the first half and I lashed out , giving him a kick up the backside . |
| 8 | This couple certainly appeared to be full of faith , which was encouraging as it was the first home that I visited . |
| 9 | I have fished all over Scotland but the first place that I came across this system , which is used to distribute available fishing fairly amongst guests , was at Scourie , and it works very well indeed . |
| 10 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 11 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 12 | No , I mean , strangely enough that was one of the things that almost put me off the relationship in the first place because I 'd never had any desire to be a mother . |
| 13 | It was my first job and I thought it would be great , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Dealing with the first theme that I mentioned , Dickens uses the word ‘ gentleman ’ a lot in the novel — it is like a leitmotif . |
| 15 | I know your local authority craftsmen and I have as you 're aware , just taken over the responsibilities and that is the first meeting that I had , that was why also there 's nothing in the report , because I thought I had a conference of people I had not spoken to the shop stewards I did n't have a f a feedback prior to the closing date of the report being concluded for print so I do and I have |
| 16 | I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink . |
| 17 | That was 12 years ago , and after winning the first race that I entered between Sudbury and Bures in a non-racing canoe , I had caught the bug . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ On the contrary , whatever I supposed your sister to be , I suspected your basic innocence from the moment we crossed the Rådhuspladsen that first night and I heard the long-drawn-out note of the lur . ’ |
| 19 | That was the first occasion when I saw my exercising as an irritating use of time , because it got in the way of our friendship . |
| 20 | This was the first occasion when I experienced the disillusion of actually seeing a place I had come to love through a poem — that had been , in Drinkwater 's phrase , ‘ lissom in a dream ’ . |
| 21 | RON HARRIS : ( Chelsea and Brentford- 1961–1983 ) : ‘ People called him Chopper Harris , and Chopper was my first nickname when I went to Wimbledon — before the crowd came up with Psycho for me . |
| 22 | However , on the first day that I got to know her I had a feeling that there was something peculiar about the woman . |
| 23 | Er , on the first day that I joined this Council which was the first day that you joined er Councillor . |
| 24 | We played late on the first day and I went round in the morning spotting the pin positions , trying to get a feel for the course so I could give the right information to Nick . |
| 25 | So consequently every time I moved school , moved into different I had to fight me way there for the first week because I hated anyone to call me Ginger you see ? |
| 26 | Women wept as Barry Ryan , in a moving tribute to his twin , said : ‘ You were at my first breath and I felt your last breath , we should smile at such perfect symmetry . ’ |
| 27 | Mr Whitechurch described it : ‘ The first train that I went over was the very latest type of West Coast Joint Stock corridor , designed to run from Euston at 11.30 am to Edinburgh and Glasgow , returning from Edinburgh at 11.35 . |
| 28 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 29 | At the time I was playing a Les Paul , which was n't my first choice because I had been playing Telecasters when Stevie ( Nicks ) and I were working together before we joined Fleetwood Mac , but when we joined the band there was an existing sound and the Telecaster was n't cutting it . |
| 30 | My first thought when I heard I 'd got the part was : ‘ Bang goes my knighthood ! ’ ’ |