Example sentences of "my first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 2 | He says : ‘ I 'm not motivated by money , otherwise I would have quit after I 'd made my first eight million dollars , which was enough for me . |
| 3 | It was my first personal experience of the extraordinary anaesthetizing powers of physical shock . |
| 4 | This was my first personal encounter with Basil Rocke . |
| 5 | Secondly , I had negotiated the entire map within my first four attempts . |
| 6 | Now , thirty years later , I feel a great regret for the father of my first four years , who took me out , and who probably loved me , irresponsibly ( " it 's all right for him ; he does n't have to look after you " ) , and I wish I could tell him now , even though he was , in my sister 's words , a sod , that I 'm sorry for my years of rejection and dislike . |
| 7 | I lunged for the computer which contained my first four hard-laboured chapters , and it literally burst into flames at my touch . |
| 8 | I got four in my first game for Newcastle against Leeds and nine in my first five matches . |
| 9 | My main task in my first five years in Burma was to tour the villages of the Irrawaddy Delta , encouraging the small Anglican congregations and visiting some forty village schools , most of them having only one or two teachers . |
| 10 | I believe that the lessons learnt from my first five years of trial and error could have been imparted to me in a few days by any half-decent panner . |
| 11 | This time I finished third and this earned me my first indoor international , with a place in the 4 × 200 metres relay team , against West Germany . |
| 12 | But more surprises were in store as I unearthed my first Roman coin . |
| 13 | ‘ This was my first professional association with Chapman , but I already knew him . |
| 14 | The former Church of England envoy said : ‘ I had contact with hundreds of people prior to my first face-to-face meeting with the kidnappers in Beirut . |
| 15 | The former Church of England envoy said : ‘ I had contact with hundreds of people prior to my first face-to-face meeting with the kidnappers in Beirut . |
| 16 | I wondered what to expect at my first Annual General Meeting . |
| 17 | Some of you er may take it amiss if I were to describe you as veterans but my by contrast , this is my first annual public meeting and not just as chairman . |
| 18 | But something , some sharper , unaccustomed sound , brought me out of my first deep sleep into listening wakefulness . |
| 19 | On my first administrative promotion in Buckinghamshire I encountered Geoff Link , for me a new colleague , but also a former teacher . |
| 20 | He rang off and I felt a warm glow of appreciation for Fred Workman who had just offered me my first full-time job in journalism . |
| 21 | I had had a very successful indoor season , set a British indoor record at 200 metres and a personal best at 60 metres , and gained my first individual international selection . |
| 22 | However , the run earned me my first individual outdoor international selection for a match against Finland at Lappeenranta . |
| 23 | My first practical experience in the use of homoeopathic remedies was in the treatment of a child with croup . |
| 24 | The bamboo rungs , though wide and strong , were loosely lashed with unreliable cordage , and Lorne 's and my first simultaneous step onto the lowest rung resulted in it slipping its knots and depositing us both heavily in the mud — myself for the second time in less than twenty minutes . |
| 25 | In 1988 I had my first one-woman show at the Barbican Centre , London . |
| 26 | They also have no qualms about cannibalism ; my first six specimens rapidly decreased to three before realisation dawned and they were separated . |
| 27 | In my first six weeks here I had lots of battles — taking on the bigger ones . |
| 28 | After my first six months as Director of South East Arts , I 've prepared an interim report with five main topics , which I wish to put forward for public consideration , and if anybody has any comments to make perhaps they 'd let me know . |
| 29 | My first political awareness of oppression was when I was discharged from the nursing corps of the army over lesbianism . |
| 30 | It was on one of these weekend trips to Regina that I wrote my first outside interview for the paper — an interview with John Philip Sousa . |