Example sentences of "by my first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And McGrindle , very matter of fact though drunk as usual : I have sixteen children , seven by my first marriage , four by my second , my second wife had two of her own , that makes thirteen , and three from my third , sixteen , and I am proud to say I have been able to give them all a good education and every chance in life without ever compromising my integrity . |
| 2 | By my first weekend at the Centre I was that very dangerous creature , one worse than a missionary , a convert . |
| 3 | pair call me by my first name too as if |
| 4 | I am bowled over by my first day at school ; there are scores of us sitting at long bench desks in a vast wooden hut . |
| 5 | But if there had been any doubt in my mind it would have been immediately resolved by my first breath of the crisp , tangy air . |
| 6 | ‘ Both by my first husband . |
| 7 | I think that 's , that 's , that 's , that 's covered by my first point . |
| 8 | But I suppose I 'm prejudiced by my first sight of her , a passion-killer if ever there was one . |
| 9 | Two by my first marriage . |
| 10 | By my first week in-country ( my third on mefloquine ) I had reduced sensation in my legs , was waking up with a start from severe nightmares which subjectively had lasted for hours ( in reality for only 15 min ) , and occasionally wondering what it would be like to jump the eight floors from my hotel room . |
| 11 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 12 | Many readers must have been shocked , and therefore some delighted , by my first description of legal pragmatism in Chapter 3 . |