Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 . |
| 2 | Because I sold it to him first . |
| 3 | I remember her at my first supper at Grove House and it was evident from listening to those in the know that Nancy was not just a someone , but a very special someone . |
| 4 | I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh . |
| 5 | ‘ I saw you through your first marriage , so the least I can do is see you through your first murder investigation . ’ |
| 6 | And allowing someone to call you by your first name ( 'Please , call me John' ) has the sub-text : ‘ I am higher-status than you are and so can grant you this permission . ’ |
| 7 | Once he was popping happily round a spooky 3′6″ course with tyres , polythene bags and barrels as fillers , I took him to his first indoor showjumping competition . |
| 8 | Most of the Elizabethan and Jacobean amateurs who collected his music made copies of parts or all of it , and Byrd himself selected it for his first ( 1589 ) book of cantiones sacrae , along with pieces of the stature of ‘ Ne irascaris ’ , ‘ Tristitia et anxietas ’ , ‘ O quam gloriosum ’ and ‘ Vigilate ’ . |
| 9 | Yet it was a most unlikely vehicle which took him to his first truly national conquest : a cart . |
| 10 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 11 | She took us to our first activity which was to learn the Pax Lodge song . |
| 12 | Can you tell me of your first involvement with the support group ? |
| 13 | It was the latter who inspired me on my first day at the tech . |
| 14 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 15 | In the first issue , Owen finds out he has diabetes and we follow him through his first visit to the doctor and then at the hospital , as he learns how to manage diabetes so that he can go on living a normal life . |
| 16 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |