Example sentences of "first [noun sg] i [verb] he " in BNC.

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1 I remember the first day I met him .
2 From the very first day I saw him I began writing poems to him that later grouped themselves into the sequence entitled ‘ Suite Salmantina ’ which , with other poems about Spain , forms the central part of my collection called The Prodigal Son : Poems 1956–1959 .
3 The first time I asked he engaged his brain , the second time he wavered a bit as if understanding he should be doing something , though not what he should be doing , and the third time he translated it successfully .
4 The first time I went he got us to do a drink diary and I know I did n't tell the truth .
5 I saw it happen with Jaco Pastorius — I know what it was like the first time I heard him .
6 I understood this the first time I read him , he wrote , in that smelly room in Hackney .
7 ‘ The first time I saw him we conversed very closely together ; and in the prospect of death he seemed solicitous to prepare for it .
8 ‘ The first time I saw him , I just thought he was unbelievably cool !
9 Though tragically killed in a recent motorbike accident , Madra was an undisputed maestro of the art , as well as an easy and informative friend whom I had known for some time , so it was a shock to witness the epic genius which came through him , and the transformation which both he and his audience underwent in that open village square the first time I saw him perform .
10 The very first time I saw him he stopped on his way to the front door , three , maybe four in the morning .
11 The first time I saw him wearing them was an isolated spring day trying its feet in winter .
12 ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said .
13 ‘ I 've been crazy about him ever since the first time I saw him . ’
14 I remember the first time I saw him , appearing out of the winter darkness in that unmade-up lane outside his house in Greenwich .
15 ‘ The first time I took him for a walk without a harness , he had a bit of a job to work that out as well .
16 The very first time I met him , we lunched in downtown Barcelona with his first wife , Susy .
17 The first time I met him was on radio .
18 I remember ( the very first time I met him ) G.P. saying that collectors were the worst animals of all .
19 Erm , the first time I met him was when he was doing a very tricky stitching job , I took Mollie up
20 First time I see him in his uniform , he looked that lovely I could 've eaten him alive .
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