Example sentences of "[pron] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to learn and to make many new things , and it was a year before I cooked and ate my first bread . |
| 2 | A girl in my first company . |
| 3 | When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things . |
| 4 | My first cousin , Andrew Jones , vicar of Hartland , officiated at the wedding service along with our Methodist minister , Rod Foster . |
| 5 | My first audition , as such , was actually for John Caird who wanted me to do a piece of Juliet . |
| 6 | But it was not until 1990 that I had my first spawning , and raised fry . |
| 7 | From these three I took a pair who seemed to get along , for my first release . |
| 8 | My first engine in the Fat Controller 's Railway was Thomas . |
| 9 | My first call was met with polite efficiency . |
| 10 | ‘ Not until after I 've had my first sip of coffee , ’ she said . |
| 11 | ‘ My first event in charge was at Goodwood — the race where Stirling Moss crashed — and I had no money . |
| 12 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
| 13 | It was my first play and it came about by accident , evolving out of that Tolstoy play I was supposed to adapt for the BBC . |
| 14 | When I was ten years old I was taken by my parents to see my first play at the Royal Theatre . |
| 15 | ‘ You wait till I get my first casualty from the homes ! |
| 16 | The gangs are killing hobos for less than a dollar and I get 19 on my first try . |
| 17 | The fun starts when you control a team and call all necessary plays , which in my first try resulted in my team performing worse than an infants rounders team against the superbowl winners . |
| 18 | I was totally petrified — so I went with another girl , my first feminist incidentally . ’ |
| 19 | I had ordered a consommé to begin and , by the end of my first course , she was clearly growing restless . |
| 20 | ‘ You , the last remaining of my First Hierarchy of Hell . |
| 21 | I watch the familiar shops and houses go by ; Mum 's old gift shop ( now a video shop ) ; the Arms , where I had my first pint ; Dad 's old garage , still doing business . |
| 22 | I celebrated that night by ordering my first pint of beer and lighting up my first Woodbine . |
| 23 | This is my first film . |
| 24 | He was picked to run in the London Schools at Crystal Palace but withdrew , so I had my first opportunity to run outside the immediate neighbourhood of school and borough , in a new environment on an international track . |
| 25 | This was my first opportunity to find out what progress you ‘ d made . ’ |
| 26 | My first sympathy is with the people that they 're in there because of , if you see what I mean ? |
| 27 | He says : ‘ I was stunned when I received my first royalty cheque . |
| 28 | A pen , pencil-cases , a wallet with a pound note inside , and my first watch , a pocket Ingersoll ( this cost in today 's money , 12 pence ) . |
| 29 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 30 | My first shock was that in England there was a whole legion of one-breasted women . |