Example sentences of "and [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know if you would like to talk to Mum and me first ? ’ |
| 2 | And so off I went then and me first job was at the Dye Works , but just at the shop delivering , as a delivery boy . |
| 3 | I would n't mind so much but it was me who had to make all the moves when Andy and I first got started . ’ |
| 4 | He also had a finger in theatrical production and I first knew him when he was associated with Elspeth Cochrane 's literary management during the 1960s . |
| 5 | I remember that when Philip and I first made our way through London to a shop which was depicted in an advertisement , in spite of the crowds on either hand all along our route , in spite of the full directions of our elders , we were as much elated by our achievement as if it had been an arduous discovery made after a journey in a desert . |
| 6 | My wife Ann and I first visited Scourie in 1974 , along with our two children , Blair and Lewis-Ann . |
| 7 | When Ann and I first visited this area , we followed the same route as luckless Montrose , travelling south from Caithness , over the Ord to the Kyle of Sutherland , past Lairg , then up Strath Oykle . |
| 8 | When Hellen and I first came to live near London , the first concert we attended at the Royal Festival Hall was a performance of Beethoven 's Piano Concerto No 4 , with Robert Casadesus at the piano and Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony Orchestra . |
| 9 | Eric and I first played with him in 1936 for the Young Players of Surrey . |
| 10 | It was one of the reasons why my wife and I first became estranged . |
| 11 | He took me down to London and I went and did an audition and I first appeared at what is now the Shaftesbury Theatre at the top of Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 12 | When Robert and I first met , it was , " Oh dear " . |
| 13 | On a personal note , you will recall that Betsan and I first met you when we were employed by the National Trust at Plas y Rhiw . |
| 14 | And the palazzo on the Grand Canal — where you and I first stayed — which has almost been restored . ’ |
| 15 | Well at various times in my life I 've come back to Kingston and I first of all used to see peo girls who were at school with me . |
| 16 | And my first meeting is at eight thirty . ’ |
| 17 | But then the crag was undercut , and my first move was a leftwards traverse above a 20 foot drop . |
| 18 | H375 DRV arrived on a cold , wet night , and my first impression was of the prodigious efficacy of the three-speed heater/demister . |
| 19 | Neither father nor mother had ever breathed a word , and my first knowledge was thrust upon me — by happening to read quite unwittingly a pamphlet — it was by Stead , exposing and giving such ghastly details of prostitution … |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Ann opened the door of the large student house in South London where she lives , wearing a cotton print dress in deep colours , and my first impression was of someone fair and small and limping . |
| 22 | By now the day was hot and bright and my first need was for lunch and a glass of wine . |
| 23 | Nancy did n't appear through the mist , and my first sight of her was nothing like so romantic . |
| 24 | None of his designs that we now possess was built , and my first thought was of regret that this should be so , but on reflection I knew that it was right . |
| 25 | It was my first taste of big-time athletics , and my first visit to Gateshead . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | I did not then know any literary people , and my first contact with Ivy ( at one remove ) was when Spencer Curtis-Brown ( later to become literary executor of Elizabeth Bowen and Somerset Maugham ) accepted the agency of my first novel late in 1937 . |
| 28 | I was the centre of their universe and my first seven years sped by in a whirl of buckskin shoes , party frocks , pet rabbits and circus trips . |
| 29 | My family were too poor ever to have a holiday together , and my first glimpse of the sea was on a choir outing shortly after my joining . |
| 30 | 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 . |