Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] the 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 |