Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] my first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so ended my first meeting with young Higgins . |
| 2 | I had just received my first commission from the world 's greatest rock read and I had less than 24 hours to deliver the goods . |
| 3 | I there soon experienced my first dealings with corporal punishment . |
| 4 | I have just made my first skirt — a straight style in tuck stitch — and I found that my dressmaking skills came into their own when making up and finishing the skirt . |
| 5 | As the mum of a 12-year-old son , we are both learning as we go along how to use the Amstrad 5086 , my son concentrating more or less on games and school related programs , myself for the odd game , but mainly word-processing ( I have just written my first book ) , genealogy and cheating on addressing the Christmas cards . |
| 6 | I have just bought my first lightweight and have noticed some funny groaning noises from the floor area . |
| 7 | Q I 've just had my first perm and I 'm a bit disappointed that my hair has lost its shine . |
| 8 | Then I phoned everybody and said , ‘ Well , I just finished my first movie . ’ ’ |
| 9 | I AM just finishing my first year at college . |
| 10 | I have just read my first Smollett — ‘ The expedition of Humphrey Clinker ’ , and found it most entertaining , as well as throwing quite a different light on the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | ‘ My homesite was Cape Wrath but before I ever made my first flight a Man came and … ’ and he began to tell her his story , of the Zoo , of the Cages , of the Men there and his sudden escape … only leaving out mention of the other eagles in the Cages for in his heart he knew their pride would ask that he did not mention their names to a free eagle , nor would they wish for pity from outside . |
| 12 | He always uses my first name , although he is several years my junior . |
| 13 | I I eat I do n't usually take my first lot of tablets till sort of around dinner time . |
| 14 | Fellow Tablers I will never ever forget my first A G M in Manchester . |
| 15 | This tour of duty also included my first spell in command when Phil took his three weeks ' leave . |
| 16 | I also saw my first fulmar , sweeping the cliffs on stiff wings , endlessly gliding with miraculous ease ; hen harrier haunted the moorlands ; golden plover and curlew cried plaintively from banks of peat ; statuesque heron stared balefully into shallow pools ; widow-black cormorant dried their dark wings on seaweed-covered rocks . |
| 17 | I have irresponsibly given my first preference to a candidate of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party . |
| 18 | Yet some twelve months after I had graduated , I was now having my first interview with my chief constable who had no idea what I had studied or what result I had achieved . |
| 19 | I well remember my first Christmas in Burma . |
| 20 | Before turning to these questions , though , I 'd like to get some reactions to the current situation , and I might as well put my first question to Jossom . |
| 21 | So here ended my first tour and I could not claim that I ever actually had a clear view of any German target , save that which we did locate with the aid of Jimmy Marks ' experiment northeast of Rotterdam in mid-June 1940 . |
| 22 | I can vaguely remember my first day at school . |
| 23 | There 's a photograph of me sitting cross-legged in the drive proudly displaying my first bumper crop of onions which Nigel learned to string à la français . |
| 24 | ‘ I hit three great drives on the practice tee and then hooked my first shot of the round into the bushes . ’ |
| 25 | With it I almost completely rewrote my first draft in response to Guzzardi 's urgings . |
| 26 | I recently attended my first match at elland road ( V blackburn ) and was very impressed by the stadium and the atmosphere . |
| 27 | I therefore answer my first question in the affirmative and I do find as a result that Miss T. had the capacity to make a valid refusal of blood on that Sunday afternoon and evening . |