Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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1 | The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log . |
2 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
3 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
4 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
5 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
6 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
7 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
8 | I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away . |
9 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
10 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
11 | I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner . |
12 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
13 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
14 | To expect a genius — yes , my daughter is a genius , I knew it from the first — to endure the humdrum ways of marriage , bear children , become a housewife — it does not bear thinking of ! |
15 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
16 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
17 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
18 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
19 | I took him to the first Giants game when he was three . |
20 | I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago . |
21 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
22 | Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place . |
23 | I was so relieved it was all over and my baby was alright and I held him for the first time . |
24 | ‘ I closed it after the first year . |
25 | ‘ I wanted him in the first place , ’ said Graham , ‘ but the management had already cast Cy Grant . |
26 | Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression . |
27 | In my time you even had to survive Hansen 's unofficial scrutiny before you made it to the first team . |
28 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
29 | What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place . |
30 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |