Example sentences of "[prep] my first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea . |
| 2 | There was no excitement about my first bra — I even had to pay , because my mum claimed I did n't need one ! |
| 3 | ‘ The majority of my early songs were about my first girlfriend . |
| 4 | ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before . |
| 5 | During my first hours there I was severely tortured . |
| 6 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 7 | During my first attack I experienced some very inaccurate return fire which ceased just before I broke away . |
| 8 | The need to have my own quiet corner became a priority during my first Easter in Cotherstone , when I was a bit depressed . |
| 9 | During my first year as a prisoner some of us were moved for a time from Silesia to a camp in the Polish corridor . |
| 10 | During my first year at the Boys ' School in 1922 , Bonfire Night was held on a Saturday ; November 5th falling on a Sunday that year . |
| 11 | His son , Wilfred , a pupil-teacher at St. Martin 's , taught me during my first year in the Boys ' School . |
| 12 | It was during my first year at university that I first came across it in a book by James Tyler Kent in a public library . |
| 13 | Alec Reid had treated several cases of polio during my first year or so in Koraloona , but there were never any signs of an epidemic . |
| 14 | I felt rather lonely during my first year and part of the second . |
| 15 | In the summer of 1924 , during my first year at Eton , Ras Tafari , later to be Emperor Haile Selassie but at that time Regent , paid a State Visit to England and invited my mother and me to call on him in London . |
| 16 | This is a fascinating place to work and during my first year here the business has continued to develop . |
| 17 | DURING my first year of A levels I noticed a swelling in one of my testes . |
| 18 | During my first year at Lancaster , the new university ( founded in 1964 ) grew very quickly , and we were able to develop the study of linguistics by appointing more staff . |
| 19 | ‘ Also , we need to give an especially big Berkeley welcome to Dr Dorothy Streeter , who 's joining our art department , ’ intoned the headmaster during my first school assembly there . |
| 20 | Announcing the new top level team , new chief executive Charles Allen said : ‘ During my first month , I have had the opportunity to review and study current and future needs and opportunities for Granada Television . ’ |
| 21 | During my first round at the Masters I four-putted the second green and a member of the gallery shouted ‘ welcome to Augusta ’ . |
| 22 | During my first dinner in a Goan house I was astonished to see the ladies greet each other with kisses on both cheeks . |
| 23 | In fact , during my first days under Mr Farraday , I was once or twice quite astounded by some of the things he would say to me . |
| 24 | ‘ I won close to Pounds 100,000 in four years on the tour — £60,000 of that during my first season in 1988 . |
| 25 | ‘ During my first season at West we only won 13 games and that was against local opposition . |
| 26 | I went there during my first summer vacation from Oxford , working my passage in a tramp steamer bound for the Black Sea . |
| 27 | Each week I continued and with Molly and Peggy Secord as my first Medau teachers , I was hooked on this form of rhythmic movement . |
| 28 | I went in through the Marsden 's revolving doors for my first treatment thinking : ‘ This is the beginning . ’ |
| 29 | I duly arrived for my first drive . |
| 30 | We fixed our first session for the following week , and with a little planning there could be a further session before I went back to Bristol for my first day return since being a resident . |