Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [subord] 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 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 4 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My first thought when I heard I 'd got the part was : ‘ Bang goes my knighthood ! ’ ’ |
| 12 | It was n't love at first sight when I met Michael [ Williams ] — it was good friends at first sight , though , for nine years . |
| 13 | Also , I am not a typist and I would never have written my first book if I did not know that Joyce was able and willing to decipher my handwriting , unsnarl my spelling and type the manuscript . |
| 14 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 15 | And so quite a big job has been cutting reeds back around the islands and the banks , and also we 've had what they call blooms of blanketweed , not so much recently but , apparently it 's more common with new ponds and I had a tremendous bloom of blanketweed the first year after I made it . |
| 16 | The first year after I moved in I found snails , morning after morning , an infantry of them , silvering across the damp lawn . |
| 17 | For the first time since I had been shot down I was alone . |
| 18 | For the first time since I had come to the college I had access to student political material because my boyfriend was reading the posters , leaflets and student newspapers to me . |
| 19 | For the first time since I had to leave home , this is a place that will leave a scar . |
| 20 | I actually slept fairly well last night , for the first time since I got here . |
| 21 | Bernie was speechless , for the first time since I 'd known him . |
| 22 | Jan sat on one of our original moquette chairs and Darren picked up the atmosphere and , for the first time since I 'd met him , sat on a chair in silence . |
| 23 | ‘ But for the first time since I came to England in August 1977 , I 'll be hoping Liverpool do n't win again . |
| 24 | For the first time since I cried my heart out in Puerto Rico — I was crying . |
| 25 | That first visit when I stayed at the Al Ain Hilton seemed in the dim past . |