Example sentences of "[pron] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although I had no idea then what species of bird it was , the picture was firmly fixed in my mind ; years later I instantly recognised it in my first ornithological guide , P. A. D. Hollom 's The Popular Handbook of British Birds . |
| 32 | Soon after starting my search I found my first good hammered — the Edward half-groat illustrated . |
| 33 | I had my first good bite , a two inch lift then the indicator dropping like the clappers on a slack line . |
| 34 | All Saints was my first primary school . |
| 35 | I was never conscious that my attire was odd until I had my first normal boy 's gear . |
| 36 | He was quite near , jostling among the spectators , and I had my first close look at the wild-eyed little goblin who had plagued me . |
| 37 | Very late though it is , there is a formica-clad coffee or hamburger bar still open less than half a mile away and I have enough cash in hand to buy my first food of the day and my first hot drink . |
| 38 | I fought my first general election campaign in 1955 , with eagerness and enthusiasm . |
| 39 | This dress reminds me of my first long dress . |
| 40 | It had been my first alpine climb , and it had been an eye-opener . |
| 41 | I love all dogs but , to be fair , Bull Terriers are my first real love . |
| 42 | But the path took me back into darkness and I felt my first real twinge of panic . |
| 43 | We sailed from Edinburgh 's port of Leith , on the RMS St Ninian , and that journey was my first real adventure into the unknown . |
| 44 | Tomorrow , I would have my first real taste of desert . |
| 45 | It was my first real encounter with the ugly face of politics and some of the harsh realities of the world ‘ outside ’ . |
| 46 | My first real grown-up friend . |
| 47 | Watching the kestrel was a great experience , but life was still very frustrating for me because my mother understandably would n't let me wander very far afield , and I was n't going to see my first real live wild owl in Colchester Park ! |
| 48 | And when I daydream of its beauty I think , too , of the people I met on Koraloona , of Doc Reid , the eccentric , wayward medic who first taught me about the island ; Bill Robins , the captain of the Mantela when our ship was attacked , and who before that was to become my first real friend ; Jason Purvis , the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame ; Paula Reece , the beautiful American with cold , appraising eyes who so loved the island — and several of its free and happy inhabitants . |
| 49 | Being inside my first real cave — not a floodlight or a handlight in sight — was an incredible experience . |
| 50 | My first real task was to prepare for the next meeting of the Accidents Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal . |
| 51 | My first real exhibition was at the Hanover Gallery in 1955 and it was n't a great success commercially very little was sold so there was an interval of eight years before I had another . |
| 52 | My first real contact with the military was when I went on a familiarisation course to the Parachute Regiment depot at Aldershot when I was fourteen , and spent two days living in the mess , where I looked around the regiment , met serving officers and had some basic interviews with retired Colonels , who were in charge of selecting the future leaders of the toughest regiment in the Army outside of the Special Air Service . |
| 53 | I do n't suppose my first real piece for the paper was exactly world-shattering . |
| 54 | My first real fear came only when I caught sight of Tandri 's face watching his five strongest crewmen hanging miserably to the mainstay of our rotten mast . |
| 55 | Four years in the army , and this is my first real battle — with a sword in my hand . |
| 56 | It was my first real experience of handling a fast planing hull . |
| 57 | It was , I think , my first real understanding of what being spoiled meant , in more than one way , and it gave me a lifelong horror of over-dressing which , having just glanced through the photo-albums in search of an illustrative self-portrait , I seem to have conquered only too well . |
| 58 | This was my first real relationship with a grown man beyond the charmed circle of father , uncles , cousins , in which Alec and I had previously moved . |
| 59 | As he sat there , that 's when I got my first real look at John Russell . |
| 60 | Er , about two and a half years ago , erm , before that , er , just at college , so this is my first real job selection . |