Example sentences of "first [noun sg] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 2 | In the first part I argue for the inclusion of gender awareness as a valid dimension of educational analysis of the arts and , as a vehicle for this argument , posit a set of four general criteria which might legitimately be used by arts educators as part of a re-evaluation of the arts curriculum in this regard . |
| 3 | CARL LLEWELLYN ( Party Politics ) : ‘ As soon as he jumped the first fence I gained in confidence . |
| 4 | I sometimes think back to that first talk I did in Mr Taylor 's class , and how scared I was . |
| 5 | The first piece I wrote for the New Statesman , almost exactly four years ago , began : ‘ People keep asking me , ‘ On what platform will you be standing for deputy leader of the Labour Party ? ' |
| 6 | The contributors will largely be from the educational faculty at the University , and in this first programme I have with me Professor Tony Becher , who is Chairman of the Education Area . |
| 7 | At our first lunch I asked for canneloni to fill myself up . |
| 8 | Oh I was and I used to go , and the first place I went to , let me think , it was Dunoon . |
| 9 | In the summer of 1991 , I had another mink film to make — this time for Wildlife on One — and the first place I thought of was the logjam on the River Usk . |
| 10 | When this happens , the first place I look for trouble is at the sinker posts . |
| 11 | ‘ Tosca was the first score I came to grips with , and what a score ! |
| 12 | And er my first job I had at Lyness was working for William on the tanks outside , tarmacadam under the tanks . |
| 13 | ‘ From that first moment I felt like his mother . |
| 14 | By a strange coincidence the first ditching I heard about was in No 77 Squadron in the early months of the war . |
| 15 | In my first article I wrote of the ingenuity and imagination I saw in children 's play in Asia . |
| 16 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 17 | The first teacher I had in the infants was a Miss , she had a bad habit of rapping you across the knuckles with a ruler , and there was a pupil teacher Miss , funny thing about that is she , she , she came up to , Mr came up as headmaster and Miss came as a teacher , she was a pupil teacher it was n't necessary to go to college and get degrees in the , she , she used to be a pupil teacher in the infant school when I was at school , and Miss was actually at the sunshine school when my daughter was going to school . |
| 18 | First person I thought about this morning was you . |
| 19 | The first person I see at Birkdale is Gary player , and I ask him if he 's fixed up with a caddie . |
| 20 | In fact I was born in Manchester and Violet Carson ( alias Ena Sharples ) was the first person I introduced on TV when I was 20 . |
| 21 | But Fate took a hand , as it has a habit of doing , and the first person I encountered in the hut was Barbara , who was putting the final touches to her make-up before going to the dance herself . |
| 22 | And the first person I danced with was ‘ him ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I went to the Defence Ministry stand — but the first person I spoke to simply shrugged and walked away . |
| 24 | He was the first friend I made in the West Riding , when we were both new to the cold Yorkshire wastes . |
| 25 | Er , we had a breeders ' meeting in October which was I enjoy them very much , I enjoy the the talk because it 's the first chance I get during the year when I can sit down and listen and I do n't have to worry about them generally , in another club , I do n't have to worry about minutes or anything , I just sit and listen and it 's great it , I really enjoy that . |
| 26 | ‘ The very first night I played with him , he 's up there blowing and he walks over to me and says , ‘ Play somethin' , Robben . ’ |
| 27 | That 's my first station I came to Zurich . |
| 28 | ‘ The first day I went into school wearing shalwar kameez a teacher said to me , ‘ Are you all right , Yasmin ? |
| 29 | I loved St Paul 's from the first day I walked through the gates , I suppose partly because no one told me off for working too hard . |
| 30 | Odd — I 've never dreamt about Cal , even though we 've been friends ever since we sat next to each other the first day I walked into that school . |