Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity .
2 In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius .
3 At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened .
4 At this point I saw for the first time , a really good reason for my being in Thailand as PCV .
5 As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy .
6 Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 .
7 ‘ Whenever the far end of an active edge A and the near end of an inactive edge I meet for the first time , if I satisfies A 's conditions for extension , then build a new edge as follows :
8 Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river .
9 The uppers , made of one piece calf leather with leather bellows , well padded tongue and collar , provided the comfort I remembered from the first day .
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