Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I was also aware of certain information recently imparted to the Bank on the subject matter of the investigation of the defendants ( to which I referred in my first affidavit ) by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and , in addition , certain information which had been obtained by the Bank in the course of its previous supervision on the [ defendants ] .
2 I am reminded of the lesson I took in a school in Sylhet which I described in my first article and the way the understanding of the task helped the children to understand the English I was using .
3 When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of .
4 At 8.30 am I drove to my first appointment in Balderton Street , planning to buy a hat at Miss Selfridge afterwards , en route to the filming .
5 The short brown gym tunic with its blue and gold woven girdle that I wore on my first day at Elmwood was a symbol of entry into a new world of lady-like refinement and academic elitism .
6 I bit into my first kourabiè , and gave an appreciative nod .
7 ‘ I was just going on 14 and I went to my first gig the Stray Cats .
8 I was only a little girl when I went to my first funeral .
9 I went for my first visit to the therapist feeling panicky , nervous , hopeful and depressed .
10 Just before I went on my first furlough after five years ' service , the Bishop of Rangoon , Norman Tubbs , called me and told me that on my return from furlough he wanted me to take over the training of the Burmese clergy .
11 That was the year I went on my first diet .
12 Twenty-five years later in West Mercia , as a newly promoted superintendent , I listened at my first conference as my peers discussed a chief constable 's agreement which allowed officers to discard ties in hot weather and wear open-necked shirts .
13 Evidently that had been broken off very soon after she arrived on her first station .
14 Sometimes she thought of her first husband and wondered briefly whether gross infidelity was really sufficient cause for divorce and whether faithless men were not perhaps — overall — more amusing than the other sort .
15 She knew with her first woman , when she was twenty .
16 She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English .
17 It seems likely that the visions of the devils and of Christ that she saw during her first breakdown were actual hallucinations , as were the later seeing of obscenities , and what she called the ‘ flickering ’ of the Sacrament .
18 What does the patients charter offer to the woman in Wandsworth who last month found that she could not have her second child in the hospital that she chose for her first child because her health authority has no contract with that hospital ?
19 When she risked a glance at him his gaze held that patrician mockery , the scathing expression she remembered from their first meeting .
20 She knew as little about him now , his parents , his life , as she had at their first meeting .
21 ‘ And you got back , you said in your first statement , at … ? ’
22 SHE sat in her first classroom , aged five , watching bug-eyed as her teacher demonstrated with sheets of coloured Cellophane how the overlaying of two primary colours produced a third from the mix .
23 Last year we moved into our first flat .
24 The following extract is taken from this last chapter , and elaborates on some of the problems we mentioned in our first chapter , ( pp 7–8 ) .
25 As we walked into our first service at Queens Park , we immediately found a congregation of loving Christians who welcomed our family warmly into an atmosphere of worship and praise to the Lord .
26 and er when I tell you that I went to the detective staff in nineteen twenty seven , then we started with our first mobile help .
27 There is none of the discrete lumpiness we saw in our first experiment when a bullet at a time hit the screen , now here , now there .
28 We struggled in our first season , were 11th last year and are hoping to continue our improvement with a top six finish this time , ’ said secretary Raymond Loughrey .
29 At one end of the town was a bank where we went on our first day to change some money .
30 Can you remember when we went on our first aid course ?
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