Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said .
2 Anglesey meanwhile , have two debutantes in their line-up one of them the first RAF Valley player to be selected for a decade .
3 She had seen little of him the first two days .
4 On the face of it the first SAS operation had been a total disaster .
5 I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened .
6 I did n't think much of it the first time .
7 ‘ Nothing ever comes of it the first time , anyway , ’ Mandy assured her .
8 ‘ I fell in love with her the first time I saw her , ’ Jean was saying .
9 Anyway I made completely the wrong decision with her with her the first time .
10 From time to time a little breeze , trapped in the courtyard , eddied and gusted in their direction , bringing with it the first hint of the sweet smell of decay .
11 I was lucky enough not to be court martialled , quite apart from getting away with it the first night .
12 I got right into it the first couple of series .
13 I remember waking with my face in it the first whole night we spent together .
14 As a result , the journal came under Crookes ' complete control , and in 1870 he published in it the first of a series of four papers on spiritualism .
15 It was a sound which had sent a thrill through him the first time he had heard it .
16 This was evident to me the first time I attended a Karajan rehearsal , and even more so in the first of our long conversations .
17 An evening like most others in that house , but to me the first of a changed life .
18 I had felt at the instant the idea suggested itself to me the first glimmer of positive thought : suddenly I knew I was not going to sink .
19 These were Kirsty 's opening words to me the first time I saw her .
20 And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it .
21 ‘ You may remember that I begged you to make love to me the first time , Penry Vaughan !
22 It did to me the first time we stayed .
23 Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp .
24 ‘ And then set your thugs on me the first time my back 's turned .
25 ‘ It had the same effect on me the first time I saw it at night . ’
26 Without you the first martian would turn round and go away again .
27 copy to you the first time
28 Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him .
29 You listen to it the first time you do n't like it and then after that then
30 If I was left to it the first pint would go about
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