Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three judges I met included the first woman judge to be appointed in Geurrero State . |
| 2 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 3 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 4 | ‘ I remember one client who burst into tears before I 'd taken the first snip , ’ said top London stylist Trevor Sorbie . |
| 5 | But at least I 'd taken the first step , and not an easy step , considering what I 'd said to the doctor at our last meeting . |
| 6 | I had made my decision and I 'd taken the first step . |
| 7 | When I 'd finished the first prayer and turned to face him , I saw that he was kneeling . |
| 8 | I determined to spend the first part of my prison leisure working out my reasons for knowing I was right . |
| 9 | When I had eaten the first course of cabbage , and the second of meat pudding , potato and carrots , I poured cold water into my used billycan and put it on the lighted stove . |
| 10 | This could also be entitled Stop Press , for it occurred after I had sent the first draft to the Hon. |
| 11 | Er on appointment , like other recruits , I had to serve the first month on night duty . |
| 12 | I had taken the first step when an elderly man touched my shoulder and asked in the lilting , Spanish-accented French of the region , if I wished to view the church . |
| 13 | I resolved to take the first thing that came along and from that base to look further afield if need be . |
| 14 | Only once has he come close to losing his rag , when publicly embarrassed by his press secretary , Julie Hall , as she admitted giving the first name of the little girl at the centre of the health election broadcast row to the press . |
| 15 | She held the envelope to the light , squinting at it with one eye while she tried to read the first paragraph . |
| 16 | ‘ You would n't think it so unexpected if you 'd seen the first nightclub I bought . ’ |
| 17 | It was a lame apology , but as she plunged into the cooler shadow of the house she knew she 'd used the first excuse which sprang to mind . |
| 18 | She may have misheard the word as dictated , but it 's much more likely that as she started writing the first syllable , she almost automatically shifted the word across to one she knows ( and can spell ! coffee causes problems , usually ) . |
| 19 | She had fulfilled the first part of the scenario . |
| 20 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 21 | She was n't scared , not even when she was half-way up the path , dark yews all around her , and heard the sound she had heard the first time . |
| 22 | She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama 's flat . |
| 23 | ‘ Ay , ’ rejoined Mrs Beattie , realising she had lost the first round , ‘ I was just on my wey up to see Thomasina . ’ |
| 24 | When she told Hawk of her dream , he told her she had reached the First Level . |
| 25 | But after she had finished the first part of her lecture ; after slightly nodding her head to the generous applause ; after the lights had gone up again ; after Ashenden had said ( as every chairman since Creation had said ) how much everyone had enjoyed the talk and how grateful everyone was that not only had the distinguished speaker fascinated each and every one of them but also had agreed to answer any questions which he was absolutely sure everyone in the room was aching to put to such a distinguished expert in the field … it was only then that Dr Moule was able to survey the two intruders . |
| 26 | She worked steadily on , until she had finished the first coat . |
| 27 | She had entered the first forest . |
| 28 | She had learned when she had held the first costume up against her , that her mother had been small , hardly , it seemed , an inch or two taller than Ellie was now . |
| 29 | She refused to marry the first husband proposed by her father , and ran away more than once with lovers of her own choosing ; when she came home pregnant she was sold off with a dowry to a plumber called William Wright . |
| 30 | ‘ Ironically by the time we came to do the first episode again , my hair had grown a little longer , so it was n't quite as eye-catching , but even so I think it 's a very unrecognised feather in Doctor Who 's cap that we created the look which launched Vidal Sassoon on his road to fame and fortune . ’ |