Example sentences of "[vb past] my [noun] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said .
2 That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time .
3 " Alone , " she told my mother on the first night .
4 Accordingly I directed my researches to the first steps on the ladder , the branch and workshop .
5 It was on that occasion — in the strangely bare study of Darlington Hall — that Mr Farraday shook my hand for the first time , but by then we were hardly strangers to each other ; quite aside from the matter of the staff , my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be , I would venture , dependable .
6 I washed my billycans for the first time since Reggane , and cleaned the kit and groundsheet with disinfectant .
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