Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] my first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I paid the woman next door a quid to look after Lee and Max , bought a roller and tray and a paste brush — another quid — borrowed a paste board , and at 8 a.m. skipped off to my first commission .
2 And that was where at the age of sixteen , I turned up for my first job interview .
3 I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest — clumsily .
4 And so it was then , that on a cold , Tuesday October evening I set off for my first match
5 ‘ I GOT kicked out of my first band and that weekend I bought a guitar and immediately started recording the first Big Black record .
6 I went up for my first term at York called Nigel and I came back as Oliver .
7 ‘ But I went back to my first dancing teacher who taught me when I was 12 and it was like five hours of physiotherapy every day .
8 Later that day we went back to my first house .
9 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 .
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