Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I first met Maggie . |
| 2 | I stood in that upper gallery where I first saw Dana and he cast that look upon me which was to make me his slave . |
| 3 | Now the Marais Poitevin is a pleasantly low-profile tourist attraction where you can take canal-boat trips from villages that have hardly changed in the 15-odd years I 've known them : Maillezais , with a huge and rather dull ruined abbey , and Coulon , where I first ate the delicious local version of moules marinieres called mouclade . |
| 4 | But for a moment , between the door of the cage and where I first took stance , I could feel the greatness of the sky , it was on my wings . |
| 5 | She also attended a kindergarten school where she first demonstrated her talent for modelling with clay . |
| 6 | So what is the interest in Olive Edis now ? j Simply that the small Norfolk town where she first set up in studio portraiture ( with her sister ) is just discovering the significance of the local photographer , Mrs Galsworthy from South Street , aka Olive Edis . |
| 7 | After so many years , we meet by chance , here , where we first met ! ’ |
| 8 | It was his second try at the London event , where he first ran in 1981 , and he was pleased with his performance . |
| 9 | And every Sunday after service he invited " a good number of his friends to his house , where he first reads over the paper , and then comments upon the text " . |
| 10 | The Olympic 800 metres finalist moved back up to the 1500 metres where he first made his name as a junior and led from gun to tape to win in 3 mins 39.58 secs . |
| 11 | It was when I got back to my new room there that I first came across my new neighbours , Jane and Mark Walsh , and their two children , Sonja and Darren . |
| 12 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 13 | It was in the context of ‘ direction ’ that I first met Julian of Norwich and subsequently a wealth of other spiritual classics . |
| 14 | Ever since then , China in its many and varied aspects has been in my mind , and I believe it was on that Saturday morning in Aunt Janie 's potato patch that I first became interested in the Orient . |
| 15 | It was during the early 30s and on one of my annual visits to eastern Canada that I first became acquainted with that noted Canadian humorist , Dr.Stephen Leacock . |
| 16 | It was in the autumn of 1938 that I first visited Hollywood , spending the best part of a fortnight in San Francisco and Los Angeles . |
| 17 | One of the reasons for this preference may be that I first came to know it at Windrush . |
| 18 | It was here , at the BCHC that I first began to hear the dictionary of cancer , to see the effect of the disease and to learn about it in any useful and positive way . |
| 19 | It was later , in my wartime hospital that I first realised that the Second Commandment had not been given to Moses on Mount Sinai but to an Irish priest upon the Mountains of Mourne . |
| 20 | It was also at Canberra Primary School in White City that I first realized that I was black . |
| 21 | It was there that I first heard ‘ The Skater 's Waltz ’ . |
| 22 | When my children were very small we used to live on the outskirts of Richmond Park , where every day I used to take my eldest child for a walk , and it was here that I first began to collect horse mushrooms . |
| 23 | It was during my first year at university that I first came across it in a book by James Tyler Kent in a public library . |
| 24 | It was at one of their conferences that I first came across organized lesbians and gays . |
| 25 | It 's in his adopted home town that I first witness him . |
| 26 | Back then it was called ‘ nancy boys ’ which was what my father used to call homosexuals , and he thought that all actors were homosexuals , so I could n't tell him that everyone in the company that I first joined was homosexual — except me . |
| 27 | It was around this time that I first discovered the darker side of ornithology — the effect of man on the environment . |
| 28 | It was , ironically enough , at a conference of headteachers about five years ago that I first heard this now familiar piece of Machiavellian wisdom quoted by an HMI . |
| 29 | It had been from their lips that I first heard uttered the expression avare comme un juif , followed by a vicious attack on the only Jewish family in their village to have survived the war and returned to claim their old house . |
| 30 | I had spent three years researching contemporary mysticism , and it was through John Michel , a colleague of mine who was an authority on Druid mythology and the ancient sites of Britain , that I first met Ringo . |