Example sentences of "[pron] first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During my first hours there I was severely tortured . |
| 2 | My first successes were in fake fur — we had one each . |
| 3 | I met my teacher 's teacher once , fairly soon after I had finished my first instruments . |
| 4 | Somehow , even at the age of five when I made my first visits to Colchester Zoo , I felt they stood out from other birds . |
| 5 | I have my first sittings at 8.30 am , and then I have my meetings ; I dictate in the afternoon to my secretary , and I might work on till midnight . |
| 6 | My first egglayers were White Cloud Mountain Minnows |
| 7 | I remember quite a number of the items from my first Boys ' School Concert , one was the carol , ‘ Away in a Manger ’ , sung by Henry Musselwhite . |
| 8 | One of my first memories as a young boy is of capturing a small bird and carrying it around the village inside my shirt pocket . |
| 9 | My first memories of a Leeds match were standing on a soapbox with my dad , when we scored a goal . |
| 10 | My first memories of Walsall Airport were when Walsall Flying Club was in being before World War Two . |
| 11 | One of my first contacts there was Frank Mah , who with his clever wife Mary , became close personal and family friends for many years . |
| 12 | My first contacts with Friends of the Earth in this region sort of what six years ago was Harlow . |
| 13 | The Arkansas governor has told reporters : ‘ My first views about England were forged at Oxford . |
| 14 | ‘ He was also seen by one of my first cousins walking up and down the corridor . |
| 15 | and I remember doing my first , one of my first essays erm saying that I did n't think they were and all that they were erm was the fact that er er of and you said to me at the end that 's fine as far you 've argued it but I think you 'll change your views as you go on and I do n't know if I have . |
| 16 | I there soon experienced my first dealings with corporal punishment . |
| 17 | If ever I get to Heaven ( which my friends tell me is unlikely ) one of my first requests will be to witness The perfect Draft . |
| 18 | When I talk with children I used to coach , who are now working their way up the ladder of older and older age groups , I often think of my first experiences of cross-country running . |
| 19 | My first efforts to find Roztoky , which is only a few miles outside Prague , were a horror story of wrong turnings , lengthy detours and rush-hour traffic . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , my first efforts must be to attract attention to myself and have myself removed from this common Bedlam in which I was shut . |
| 21 | It was just four months ago that met my first contras face to face . |
| 22 | If I went in , he would insist on cutting my hair himself and embarrass me by telling those waiting that he could remember cutting my first curls . |
| 23 | One of my first priorities is to get to know the IT community , firstly in the UK , but also in Europe and beyond . |
| 24 | If he is anything like I was when I played my first Masters ( of three ) in 1978 , this limited time will not have prevented him from dreaming of all possible scenarios , from an air shot on the first tee to outright victory by some 10 shots . |
| 25 | When I listen to a piece of music , my first questions have to do with whether it moves me , does it have anything unique to tell me , and questions about what style it 's in are way down the list . |
| 26 | My first experiments with love , were like everyone else 's , with my mother . |
| 27 | one of my first artists came through a very old friend called Richard Ogden who now manages paul McCartney . |
| 28 | There is a sense in which the hero of Kundera 's novel Life is elsewhere , published in Britain in 1986 , is also the hero of Klima 's collection of stories My First Loves , published here in the same month of the same year . |
| 29 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 30 | It is not surprising that the Czech novelist Josef Skvorecky should be keen on My First Loves . |