Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] my first " in BNC.

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1 I did n't have long to wait for my first recovery , because the next day a kid arrived at the house carrying the ghastly yellow-coated corpse of a starling .
2 I have Phil to thank for my first break on the Cutters .
3 True , if understood to relate to candidates as persons : my third preference for Brawny can never count against my first preference for Beefy .
4 I am reminded of the lesson I took in a school in Sylhet which I described in my first article and the way the understanding of the task helped the children to understand the English I was using .
5 I was also aware of certain information recently imparted to the Bank on the subject matter of the investigation of the defendants ( to which I referred in my first affidavit ) by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and , in addition , certain information which had been obtained by the Bank in the course of its previous supervision on the [ defendants ] .
6 But I was surprised to discover on my first full day at Thornfield that Mrs Fairfax was not in fact the owner , as I had assumed , but the housekeeper , and that my new master was a Mr Rochester , who was often away from home .
7 Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible .
8 You said you wanted to come on my first canoe-trip . ’
9 But if there had been any doubt in my mind it would have been immediately resolved by my first breath of the crisp , tangy air .
10 So I 'd thank Mr Fry for his kind advice and start saving for my first toot toute suite …
11 ‘ Because I was injured in my first game for Villa and then kept breaking down in training , I never had the chance to get sharp and readjust to the speed of the English game .
12 ‘ Because I was injured in my first game for Villa and then kept breaking down in training , I never had the chance to get sharp and readjust to the speed of the English game .
13 I began broadcasting when I was twenty-one — it was what I wanted to do more than anything , if you do n't count an early ambition to be Hopalong Cassidy or Flash Gordon — and I do n't think I 've had many happier moments than acting in my first radio play .
14 At 8.30 am I drove to my first appointment in Balderton Street , planning to buy a hat at Miss Selfridge afterwards , en route to the filming .
15 Then the old porter I 'd seen on my first visit shambled across the hallway , teapot with no lid in one hand and a bottle of milk in the other .
16 This was the same island we had visited on my first trip .
17 Roughs , based on my general knowledge of the subject , were presented at my first meeting with the ‘ team ’ and accepted in principle .
18 When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of .
19 I had become quite skilled with harees , that glutinous porridge of lamb and cracked wheat which I had met at my first meal bedu style .
20 After the horror stories about the dogs I hesitate to go near my first one , but with us they are just big balls of fur .
21 I duly arrived for my first drive .
22 All I could remember of my first visit was that I had found several items , including a Tudor buckle .
23 Going to my first feminist conference in the late seventies : the thrill of seeing so many women together , and , even more so , seeing so many lesbians openly showing their affections for each other .
24 ‘ I remember going to my first meeting , ’ he recalls .
25 I never ticked it , it does damn all for me , I do n't see why I should n't insist on my first colour-choice or nothing .
26 I first knew it unmistakably when Herr Sussmeyer replied to my first letter , saying he had this quest for pubic hairs because he loved and respected women so much .
27 I remember once talking with a woman who replied to my first question , ‘ No , I find it hard to believe . ’
28 Well look at this board look at my first two I 've done here as an example .
29 ‘ That 's nothing to worry about — you should have heard what happened at my first interview . ’
30 I wondered what to expect at my first Annual General Meeting .
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