Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] 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 want to play in the first competition match and then make sure of my place in the NSW team .
3 I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one .
4 A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up
5 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 .
6 I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work .
7 And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney .
8 I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked .
9 I had trained for the first time only four days before !
10 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 .
11 The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail .
12 And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there …
13 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 .
14 We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip .
15 Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes .
16 That I 've done for the first time in my life something original .
17 There 's actually another complaint this morning I 've had on the first floor of G P House .
18 Well I 've got to the first one
19 Now I 've got through the first round , it 's taken the pressure off me a bit .
20 no , no , my Lord I have raised for the first time the board minute
21 In view of the answer that I have given to the first question this second question does not arise and it would be unwise for me to attempt to answer it on a hypothetical basis .
22 As I have said , I have quoted from the first page of the background paper , which is available from the Library .
23 All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings .
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