Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 2 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 3 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 4 | Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date . |
| 5 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 6 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 7 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 8 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 9 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 10 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
| 11 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |