Example sentences of "[pron] the first [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
| 2 | These were Kirsty 's opening words to me the first time I saw her . |
| 3 | ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ It had the same effect on me the first time I saw it at night . ’ |
| 5 | This was evident to me the first time I attended a Karajan rehearsal , and even more so in the first of our long conversations . |
| 6 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 7 | ‘ Something was bothering you the first time we met , and you kept quiet about that , too . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’ |
| 9 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 10 | It was a sound which had sent a thrill through him the first time he had heard it . |
| 11 | ‘ That lady tamed him the first time he set eyes on her . |
| 12 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 13 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |
| 14 | ‘ I fell in love with her the first time I saw her , ’ Jean was saying . |
| 15 | Was n't it the first black they 'd ever had there , dad ? |
| 16 | He really did n't like it the first time we played it , so he tried spoiling it . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , she was doing it the first time I laid eyes on her ! ’ |
| 18 | You listen to it the first time you do n't like it and then after that then |
| 19 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 20 | This is a little trick with which my daughter Carla amazed both my elder son and myself the first time I saw it . |
| 21 | well what the first thing he do and he has to go in the |