Example sentences of "of [pron] early [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's one of my earliest memories . |
| 2 | If this is so , some of my earliest memories heralded a life full of gloom and disaster , or at best , a consuming interest in the spectacular , even the morbid . |
| 3 | Well er I think some of my earliest memories are er dating to the First World War time when I was a boy and we lived in Street which er during the war , we made a shift to which was really the opposite side of the street . |
| 4 | Some of the galleries were gone before the days of my earliest memory , and all of them were hastening to decay . ’ |
| 5 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |
| 6 | I was born in Wapping in the year nineteen hundred and six , my father was a docker , one of my earliest recollections is of the dock strike of nineteen hundred and eleven , in which I played a part lining up at the soup kitchens to get soup for the family . |
| 7 | ‘ I played some of my earliest gigs at the club , ’ Joel says . |
| 8 | ‘ One of my early thoughts was to have the base unit moulded with two skins . |
| 9 | Most of my early excursions were official journeys to the farms on the hills . |
| 10 | How on earth I came through all those perils unscathed , unarrested , is one of the miracles of my early life . |
| 11 | Fifteen years or so after these events of my early life in secondary school it is hard to remember now how important all these things were . |
| 12 | Also I dislike bureaucratic organisation , perhaps because of my early experience with CHE . |
| 13 | With hindsight , I question some of my early motives and certainly now see different ways of exploring choices with students . |
| 14 | My relationship with my father had not changed , although I should have welcomed some change , since the days of my early childhood : it is difficult for most parents to admit that their children are growing up and therefore in need of a more flexible parental attitude . |
| 15 | I lived quite a lot of my early childhood at the Thompsons ' house behind a shop on Harehills Parade . |
| 16 | Star of my early mornings , |
| 17 | When crossing by boat from West Loch Tarbert to Port Ellen on one of my early Journeys to Islay I was talking with an elderly minister who was coming to visit a crofter brother who was ill , and during our conversation said that it appeared to me that for a small island with a population of about four thousand it had produced an unusually large proportion of ministers , ship captains , marine engineers and doctors and asked him why he thought that was so . |
| 18 | ‘ I met them on one of my early trips out here . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The majority of my early songs were about my first girlfriend . |
| 20 | And I tell you one of my early recollections when I went to school , I 'm going back now , was er across the way from where I lived , was a family and their name was , I remember the name although I 'd only be about nine . |
| 21 | On another it is an exploration into how an abused child becomes an abuser — and the novel draws its painful resonance from the fact that this theme is part of Banks ' own experience : ‘ Alcoholism , domestic violence and abandonment , those are the three essential characteristics of my early family life , ’ he says . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most remarkable inch loss of all was from Mollie Slack , one of my early volunteers from Radio Nottingham . |
| 23 | It 's a beautiful place for any nature lover , and I did a lot of my early birdwatching in Cornwall here . |
| 24 | It 's amazing , even after a forty-year gap , that I feel I still have a rapport with most mineworkers because of my early days in the industry . |
| 25 | It does not escape me that a fair hand has already written some account of my early days ; but that account broke off too soon , for I returned from the realms of ice , to which solitudes my soul — if I may be presumed to have one — was attracted . |
| 26 | Yet it was from Samsova , says Cohan , that the idea for A Midsummer Night 's Dream originally came : ‘ We had been talking about the company doing Forrest , one of my earlier works , when Galina mentioned The Dream . |
| 27 | I do not want , wrote Harsnet , to try and trace this logic or to dwell , in these notes , on the nature and direction of my earlier work , especially , he wrote , as I have always held that any new work worth its salt should be essentially different from all that has gone before , all that others have done and all that you have done , just as the deeds of each new day must never simply repeat those of the previous day or days . |
| 28 | Everything which is now taking place confirms that I have to be careful , very careful , even to the extent of disowning some of my earlier work if necessary . |
| 29 | In many ways it is an abbreviated version of my earlier work Flying Model Helicopters , which I recommend for those who require a fuller appreciation of the subject . |
| 30 | It might seem therefore that my more recent work had completely undone the results of my earlier work on singularities . |