Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I did the first album , ‘ Never Look Back ’ , and it did really well . |
| 2 | Once I found the first publisher , it just snowballed . ’ |
| 3 | … half the year had gone , the clear smoke-free distances of early summer a thing of the past , and midsummer day over , before I got the first clue . |
| 4 | However , I had hardly got started before I got the first complaint . |
| 5 | I remember being thrilled when I got the first whicker of recognition from my horse and most people feel happier and more confident riding a horse they know — even if it is n't well behaved ! |
| 6 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 7 | One survivor says : ‘ When I saw the first bomb fall , I knew that it was going to be a bad day for America ’ . |
| 8 | I was struck when I attended the first conference on corporate governance after the draft Cadbury Report was published . |
| 9 | And that was a fortnight ago when I had the first scan . |
| 10 | Air temperature was 15 ° C at 8.00 pm , just before complete darkness , when I heard the first voices in an extensively flooded field . |
| 11 | As I now personally from one of my previous lives in nineteen eighty-two , when I became the first Director of the newly independent National Federation of Community Organisations . |
| 12 | erm when I went the first year I looked at them . |
| 13 | Fenella must have heard me , as she appeared at her door as I reached the first landing . |
| 14 | The ground felt as I imagined a first world war battlefield might feel — all pits and trenches — but dry . |
| 15 | I had dropped my bag as I hit the first man , but that did n't matter . |