Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [pos pn] 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 | I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh . |
3 | ‘ I saw you through your first marriage , so the least I can do is see you through your first murder investigation . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I never had a TV set until I bought one with my first lot of royalties and the only way we got the record player was because my dad won about £40 on the pools . |
6 | Yet it was a most unlikely vehicle which took him to his first truly national conquest : a cart . |
7 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
8 | She took us to our first activity which was to learn the Pax Lodge song . |
9 | It was the latter who inspired me on my first day at the tech . |
10 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
11 | 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 . |