Example sentences of "[adv] the first [noun] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 2 | So the first time I had a conversation with Mr Wogan was live on television ! |
| 3 | It was not the first time they had been told this . |
| 4 | It was not the first time they had played this mischievous game with each other , on stage . |
| 5 | This was not the first time I had noticed the old enmity of the Norwegians for the Germans . |
| 6 | This was not the first time I had dabbled in adultery . |
| 7 | It was not the first time I had seen " my " insects . |
| 8 | This was not the first time I had come across the concept of ‘ Quality ’ as meant in this context . |
| 9 | It was not the first time he had seen such symptoms . |
| 10 | It was not the first time he had come home covered in blood . |
| 11 | It was not the first time he had been the recipient of an undiplomatic reference to the absence of colonial genes in Alexei 's physique , manner and appearance . |
| 12 | President Poincaré wrote gloomily in his diary : ‘ Encore une défaillance ! ‘ , revealing that this was not the first news he had received of a lapse of morale at Verdun . |
| 13 | Paula was amazed by the security arrangements that were necessary to ensure that the new season 's collections remained exclusive — the windows at the rear of the premises were heavily barred and practically the first thing she had to do on commencing her employment was to sign a contract promising that she would not breathe a word about the designs she saw . |
| 14 | It was also the first time he had driven with navigator John Anthony , a retired fire officer from South Nutfield . |
| 15 | I think that erm the actual position er assured was that industry gave us a quotation in erm April nineteen ninety two which actually was somewhat higher than we 'd anticipated , but I 'm not sure that industry reyu viewed it as an increase because it was probably the first time they had formally quoted a price . |
| 16 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
| 17 | Well the first job they had there was clip I was on cl down below on in the pits . |
| 18 | This was n't the first time it had got me into trouble , but I intended to make damn sure it was the last . |
| 19 | Almost the first experiments I had made with the passive avoidance model after completing the work with Marie , and even before we had located IMHV and LPO as the sites of change , looked at the effects of training on protein synthesis in general , using the precursor techniques that have already been described in earlier chapters . |
| 20 | lt was almost the first remark he had addressed to me all evening . |
| 21 | It was almost the first time he had sounded civil . |
| 22 | She could remember vividly the first time she had tried dope , the day that she had found out about her mother 's affair from one of her classmates . |