Example sentences of "i [vb past] the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | As I now personally from one of my previous lives in nineteen eighty-two , when I became the first Director of the newly independent National Federation of Community Organisations . |
2 | I remember being thrilled when I got the first whicker of recognition from my horse and most people feel happier and more confident riding a horse they know — even if it is n't well behaved ! |
3 | In March 1951 , I reported the first immunization of children with live attenuated polio type II virus at a meeting of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in Hershey , Pennsylvania . |
4 | Shortly after Christmas I received the first batch of rereleases from the Savoy label , or rather from the Nippon Columbia Co . |
5 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
6 | Cos I spent , I spent the first week of the holiday mainly with Shelley . |
7 | I watched the first flood of water race down to the sea , muddy and littered , then turned to head for home . |
8 | With an almighty tug-of-war heave , with my back almost horizontal and shoulders pressed hard into the cross-bar , I crossed the first patch of sand . |
9 | As it was soon to be finally and completely demolished , I took the first opportunity of looking round and about the old shed to see if I could find something , anything , of interest relating to the depot to add to my growing collection of ‘ Railwayana ’ . |
10 | I won the first purse of gold , then a second , then a third . |
11 | Now I had the first set of these dividers over in this country . |
12 | With the help of Keith Lascelles and Howard Imber , I closed the first hour of the show within thirty seconds of the allocated time . |
13 | I MISSED the first performance of Peter Thompson 's Chinese Lantern Music at last year 's Summer Serenade , was so delighted to hear the complete work — the third in a series of commissions for local composers — played by the Petersfield Area Youth Orchestra on Wednesday . |