Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world .
2 Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay .
3 This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity .
4 In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius .
5 At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened .
6 At this point I saw for the first time , a really good reason for my being in Thailand as PCV .
7 As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy .
8 Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 .
9 ‘ Whenever the far end of an active edge A and the near end of an inactive edge I meet for the first time , if I satisfies A 's conditions for extension , then build a new edge as follows :
10 Holland I sank before the first nuclear tests and was shielded by the sea from radiation .
11 Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river .
12 The women I met in the refuge , and others I met in the first few weeks of my journey , stated their own investment in this book : they did n't want to be objects observed , they wanted to be its subjects .
13 The uppers , made of one piece calf leather with leather bellows , well padded tongue and collar , provided the comfort I remembered from the first day .
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