Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] my first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At the end of summer there were still patches of old snow on the sheltered slopes of the Cirque des Pessons , and I wrote my first poem about Andorra :
2 I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink .
3 When I reached the pit bottom , there was approximately three feet of water at the pit bottom and I had my first experience of water in the mines .
4 When we were seated facing each other again she gave me a ball of pink wool and a pair of knitting needles and I had my first lesson in how to knit properly without dropping stitches .
5 And I suppose my first step on the path would be to tell you where the jade is ? ’
6 and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult !
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