Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I spent my first year developing that , translating it into a job description for me an my colleagues , structuring plans for the health boards and therefore job descriptions for general managers — it was a cascade — to help people in their everyday jobs , involving examining what proportions of the organisation were crucial , not just to the people within them , but to those using them . ’ |
| 2 | So I spent my first month as Special Projects Officer looking for work . |
| 3 | Perhaps she knew he wanted a son , perhaps she said her first marriage broke up because her first husband found out he was n't the father . ’ |
| 4 | There were a few scares at the death , nothing happened , just they got their first corner after about 90 mins … and after last year … however nothing came of it ( or their second and last corner 3 mins into injury time ) , except one header which Lukic watched wide . |
| 5 | A week later she made her first score from a dealer in Times Square . |
| 6 | Twenty-five minutes later they received their first back-bearing from Darwin , indicating that they were one degree north of track . |
| 7 | Three years later he had his first Formula One drive in a March 711 at the Austrian Grand Prix , just six years after watching his first Grand Prix . |
| 8 | He had heard that Newgate was a hell-hole but now he experienced it first hand and understood why some prisoners went quickly insane . |
| 9 | Well I had my first operation twentieth of August then I had another one the second of October . |
| 10 | In October this seemingly unbeatable filly went to France for the Prix du Conseil Municipal , and here she met her first defeat , beaten two and a half lengths by the 66–1 outsider Presto . |
| 11 | Here we saw our first knife-fight which was clearly to the death — and Abu hustled us away from the milling throng which surrounded the two furious young combatants who rolled around like snakes in the dust attempting to stab each other with their " badiks " , the seaman 's dagger which few of the locals went without . |
| 12 | Here he published his first Gibbons ‘ V.R. ’ stamp album , followed by the ‘ Improved ’ and illustrated ‘ Imperial ’ albums . |
| 13 | It was then I had my first taste of prison . |
| 14 | ‘ Then I took my first holiday for seven years and went to Egypt . |
| 15 | Then I did my first modelling job and got $400 for two hours ' work . |
| 16 | It 's all sanded down again , then you put your first coat Now you use what you call a rubber which is consists of a piece of cotton wool You know you know , cotton wool |
| 17 | That 's how we did our first album which was on the Decca label called ‘ David Bowie' . |
| 18 | After the 1979 season , Dave caddied for Michael King and Manuel Calero , then he made his first bid for the bag of Sandy Lyle . |
| 19 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
| 20 | Local evening papers described how he met his first wife , who is named : ‘ pregnant , they married in a hurry ’ . |
| 21 | If he is anything like I was when I played my first Masters ( of three ) in 1978 , this limited time will not have prevented him from dreaming of all possible scenarios , from an air shot on the first tee to outright victory by some 10 shots . |
| 22 | The front door was locked , and that was when I made my first acquaintance with a venerable traditional figure , the sereno , an old man with a stick , a big brass badge and a large bunch of keys . |
| 23 | Somehow , even at the age of five when I made my first visits to Colchester Zoo , I felt they stood out from other birds . |
| 24 | I must have been about fifteen when I received my first love letter . |
| 25 | If so , you will sympathise with my own feelings when I unearthed my first coin dating from the English Civil War : a Charles I shilling , probably minted in Oxford in 1642 . |
| 26 | I was 14 when I had my first date . |
| 27 | As I tell children in primary schools , I was six when I had my first piece published . |
| 28 | Er and I , I do n't know whether that was where I got my first idea of being a nurse . |
| 29 | My homes are a far cry from the attic flat in Bloomsbury where I had my first set in 1958 . |
| 30 | Those living in the more remote area like Albany , where I did my first workshop , are truly isolated . |