Example sentences of "[prep] i 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 | This was evident to me the first time I attended a Karajan rehearsal , and even more so in the first of our long conversations . |
| 3 | An evening like most others in that house , but to me the first of a changed life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These were Kirsty 's opening words to me the first time I saw her . |
| 6 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 7 | ‘ You may remember that I begged you to make love to me the first time , Penry Vaughan ! |
| 8 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ And then set your thugs on me the first time my back 's turned . |
| 11 | ‘ It had the same effect on me the first time I saw it at night . ’ |