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 . |