Example sentences of "first [noun sg] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first heard the first noise I thought what the bloody hell 's that and I turned the sound down . |
| 2 | The hill was a switchback and at the top of the first rise I stopped and got out to have a look around . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 5 | I know nothing of political tactics , but I will say this : Having come to that conclusion myself , I felt the only honest and right thing as a leader of a democratic party was to tell them , at the first opportunity I had , what I thought , and submit it to their judgment . ’ |
| 6 | The first opportunity I got to look at this stuff is on Sunday on the library |
| 7 | After a slow first hour I started to get a few better fish , roach and skimmers . |
| 8 | Dawson originally trained in art and design at the London College of Furniture , ‘ because it was the first course I got on . ’ |
| 9 | Dawson originally trained in art and design at the London College of Furniture , ‘ because it was the first course I got on . ’ |
| 10 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 11 | About fifty feet from the first tent I turned the van around and pulled it slightly off the track . |
| 12 | At first glance I thought I was looking at a cross between a gibbon and a goat . |
| 13 | In the very first episode I did , we fitted that onto a wobbling camera tracking in ( today you 'd call it a hand-held shot ) and , together with a sucker cup sticking out into shot , it gave you an impression of the thing lumbering towards Barbara down a passage . |
| 14 | At first light I gave Taff a shake and presented him with a mug of tea . |
| 15 | For the first term I felt guilty I 'd abandoned him even though he 'd told me to come and could stand on his own two feet . |
| 16 | In the first chapter I argued that the fact that the Scots settlers and the Irish natives were respectively Calvinists and Roman Catholics had profound consequences for the development of social conflict . |
| 17 | In the first chapter I dealt briefly with some of the major ways in which the global system has been categorized . |
| 18 | She was the first pig I 'd ever met , and she set me thinking , and reading up on pigs . |
| 19 | CARL LLEWELLYN ( Party Politics ) : ‘ As soon as he jumped the first fence I gained in confidence . |
| 20 | I sometimes think back to that first talk I did in Mr Taylor 's class , and how scared I was . |
| 21 | ‘ I remember the very first piece I wrote I sent to a friend during the war , ’ Mr. Johnson told the Herald . |
| 22 | 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 ? ' |
| 23 | The first car I bought was the new Ford Anglia at Skippers , Darlington for just £500 . |
| 24 | Well I feel erm really that we should have a little bit more compassion amongst ourselves as women and when I had my first child I had a very good friend who went through the pregnancy with me who is waiting for a child to arrive by adoption , and she had the baby a couple of months after I had my baby . |
| 25 | It was the first question I asked . |
| 26 | It was the first airedale I 'd seen for years , maybe the first since the two that shadowed my childhood . |
| 27 | THERE is a first time for everything : Aladdin was the first panto I 'd been to and the first Frank Bruno has performed in . |
| 28 | I know she were , she were brick shit she were , I said to Lyn I said I 'm bloody sure , I could have actually , she , she were nearly eating out of my arm , in them last few weeks , I 'll tell you , ooh the encouragement I got about the driving ooh I ca n't do it Lyn and when I comes in that day the first test I had she 'd made a great big fucking cake |
| 29 | It was the first winter I became ugly : |
| 30 | At our first lunch I asked for canneloni to fill myself up . |