Example sentences of "[verb] my [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |
| 2 | ‘ Before the fight they were chanting my name for the first time and I could see the effect it had on Ruddock , his head was going down while my chest was swelling with pride . |
| 3 | " Alone , " she told my mother on the first night . |
| 4 | With every nerve on edge and my heart pumping I put my foot on the first stair . |
| 5 | It was on that occasion — in the strangely bare study of Darlington Hall — that Mr Farraday shook my hand for the first time , but by then we were hardly strangers to each other ; quite aside from the matter of the staff , my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be , I would venture , dependable . |
| 6 | A , you might not want to come and join my company in the first place |
| 7 | From continually chasing my tail in the first month and being late for everything , and always being in trouble in varying degrees , punctuality became second nature . |
| 8 | ‘ I told 'im 'e was a no-good whoreson an' 'e should n't 'ave wasted my time in the first place , ’ Billy replied , his blue eyes blazing at the memory of it . |
| 9 | Dacourt looked at me under lowered brows as if recognising my existence for the first time . |