Example sentences of "from the first [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved St Paul 's from the first day I walked through the gates , I suppose partly because no one told me off for working too hard . |
| 2 | Right from the first day I worked hard , no longer rested on my oars and as a result topped the class list . |
| 3 | From the first night he had met her , when she had stood up to him in his own house , he had been attracted to her . |
| 4 | About fifty feet from the first tent I turned the van around and pulled it slightly off the track . |
| 5 | It is the most addictive drug ever — many become addicted from the first time they use it . |
| 6 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 7 | We really felt at home here from the first time we came . |
| 8 | Women are so utterly used to working with their own bodies : we are trained to do so from the first time we wear pink-for-a-girl , and a concentration upon the significations of our physicality is encouraged to a far greater extent than is the case with boys and men . |
| 9 | ‘ Did n't you guess , my beautiful idiot , that I 've been crazy about you from the first time I saw you standing outside your hotel bedroom in France ? ’ |
| 10 | They were like that from the first time I met them . ’ |
| 11 | I fetch water — an easy job , just grab a kettle , head for the cliffs and fill from the first stream you fall in — and offer it to Tor . |
| 12 | From the first moment we met you wove a spell that has bound me to you more securely than chains could ever do . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ This is something I should have done days ago ; something I 've wanted to do almost from the first moment we met , yet I 've fought against it every step of the way , just as you have . |
| 14 | From the first moment we spoke I knew you were a girl with great sensibility , and I admire you very much . |
| 15 | In fact , right from the first moment we arrived back in London she 's done her best to make my life absolute hell ! ’ |
| 16 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 17 | He was impressed with Myra from the first moment he saw her : " She was a tremendous talent with a feel and flair which can not be taught . " |
| 18 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |
| 19 | She told Lily afterwards that from the first moment she saw him , she knew . |
| 20 | From the first moment I set eyes on Frankenstein , at the hotel in Sècheron , I had the impression of a man with a burdensome secret . |
| 21 | From the first moment I saw Inverness Doogie and his Welsh wife , Miranda , I had them down as a sort of suicidal Sonny and Cher . |
| 22 | ‘ I think I 've loved you from the first moment I saw you , ’ she said , and drew in her breath sharply as he crushed her against him . |