Example sentences of "[pron] first day " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was my first day in about eight months without my lifeline and I felt horribly alone . |
| 2 | My first day at Tropicana was spent in a boat , on the beach , and in the bar . |
| 3 | On my first day in Alaska I made a bee-line for the local radio station KFAR where I met the manager , Augie Hiebert and we spent the rest of the day talking shop . |
| 4 | We fixed our first session for the following week , and with a little planning there could be a further session before I went back to Bristol for my first day return since being a resident . |
| 5 | ‘ I remember so well my first day . |
| 6 | ‘ On my first day I felt so self-conscious , like a country bumpkin . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ On my first day in corporate finance I was translating for a Japanese MD who was hoping to buy a British company . ’ |
| 8 | It was the latter who inspired me on my first day at the tech . |
| 9 | I remember the sinking feeling still : 1964 , having just moved up to Leeds and my first day at Almscliff — then , and probably still , the best swather of tall poppies in the land . |
| 10 | And all on my first day — this is the sport to capture the imagination . |
| 11 | Certainly children who start their primary school life in the late 1980s will enter a far richer classroom than did the children I was responsible for on my first day of teaching . |
| 12 | Having met with this problem on my first day , the following morning I wised-up and took a taxi around the harbour , half an hour before sunrise , to approach Farm Cove by way of the delightfully names Woolloomooloo Bay . |
| 13 | ‘ Bob was very helpful when he played under men and gave me a lot of helpful advice , especially after Middlesex had scored 120 for 0 against use before lunch on my first day in charge ! ’ |
| 14 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 15 | I am bowled over by my first day at school ; there are scores of us sitting at long bench desks in a vast wooden hut . |
| 16 | The short brown gym tunic with its blue and gold woven girdle that I wore on my first day at Elmwood was a symbol of entry into a new world of lady-like refinement and academic elitism . |
| 17 | I do n't remember what the occasion was — maybe it was my first day at school , or maybe I was staying with my aunt for a few days … ’ |
| 18 | My first day on the works I was sent off to whitewash a shed all by myself . |
| 19 | That was my first day at Lowood . |
| 20 | Only three could read , and none could write , so at the end of my first day I felt quite depressed at the thought of the hard work ahead of me . |
| 21 | On my first day in the job he took me into the director 's Portakabin , put his arm around me and , showing me the empty trophy case , said ‘ Your job , Les , is to fill that cabinet before I die . ’ |
| 22 | Having met with this problem on my first day , the following morning I wised-up and took and taxi around the harbour , half an hour before sunrise , to approach Farm Cove by way of the delightfully named Woolloomooloo Bay . |
| 23 | Erm I can recall my first day at school . |
| 24 | On my first day at the Istituto Tecnico Macedonio Melloni , which was about twenty minutes ' walk from where the tram stopped , all the new pupils were being greeted at the top of a large staircase by the headmaster , a rather forbidding figure who had a white beard and gold-rimmed spectacles , and was dressed in a black suit . |
| 25 | So I thought that there was plenty of time as this is my first day off from work . |
| 26 | On my first day at the university I met my teacher , Professor Waldman , who was one of the greatest scientists in the world . |
| 27 | I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I ca n't say that I 've really earned this , ’ said John , taking a cup , ‘ but perhaps I can be forgiven my first day . |
| 29 | My First Day |
| 30 | There were less than twelve hours before the big day , my first day at Debenham High School . |