Example sentences of "my [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | My actual first thatching was done at Chessington Zoo on the ladies ' loos when we were helping out a fellow franchisee with whom Eric had trained . |
| 2 | The sight of a word processor so terrifies me that I 've stuck rigidly to scissors and adhesive tape , while a genius of a lady in Twickenham makes sense of my appalling first drafts . |
| 3 | My 81 first class wickets last summer proved the point . |
| 4 | Let me tell you , when those dubbin-lickers at Whaddon go on their knees and beg me to bring my United first team squad to ‘ The Tip ’ to put a few quid in their ailing coffers , I shall take great delight in treading on Ken Mentle 's fingers , provided he survives last week 's heart attack , and raising two toes in a defiant ‘ get lost ’ gesture . |
| 5 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 6 | My own first research experience using biographical data was when I was studying the history of housing management in Britain and , inevitably , I looked into the work and times of the great nineteenth-century housing management pioneer , Octavia Hill . |
| 7 | His Carnival ( my own first choice when Building a Library for BBC Radio 3 ) , too , is alive with gaiety and passion . |
| 8 | My own first tenth and a tenth of T'zin 's . |
| 9 | ‘ A few hours ago I burned the remains of my own first born , ’ Tallis said . |
| 10 | that was my twenty first birthday we bought that on , so that was before Gary was born and er , that had black screw on legs as well , the televisions had black screw , oh we did n't have a television we had a second hand television about a year after we were married and I remember Coronation Street starting , that started about when we got married . |
| 11 | Now my twenty first birthday I 'd never had a copper for weeks , w e had n't got anything , anything at all , and all we got really was the old fashioned dog biscuits . |
| 12 | And I was in in Alexandria , and er and that was it , that was my twenty first birthday there you see . |
| 13 | ‘ My parents gave me it on my twenty first . ’ |
| 14 | First good watch I had was for my twenty first , I 've still got , it still goes |
| 15 | I 'm not at my best first thing in the morning . ’ |