Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] my first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to know so much about fighting that I was very surprised when I knocked him down with my first hit , and then again with my second . |
| 2 | I am bowled over by my first day at school ; there are scores of us sitting at long bench desks in a vast wooden hut . |
| 3 | And so it was then , that on a cold , Tuesday October evening I set off for my first match … |
| 4 | I was showing this off in my first week — wishing I could walk on my hands too , like my father — when I broke the bed 's cast-iron frame . |
| 5 | I paid the woman next door a quid to look after Lee and Max , bought a roller and tray and a paste brush — another quid — borrowed a paste board , and at 8 a.m. skipped off to my first commission . |
| 6 | I went up for my first term at York called Nigel and I came back as Oliver . |
| 7 | And that was where at the age of sixteen , I turned up for my first job interview . |
| 8 | I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest — clumsily . |
| 9 | ‘ I GOT kicked out of my first band and that weekend I bought a guitar and immediately started recording the first Big Black record . |
| 10 | But something , some sharper , unaccustomed sound , brought me out of my first deep sleep into listening wakefulness . |
| 11 | Cos I was out with my first daughter at quarter to eight in the morning to catch the bus to take her to adopted aunty |
| 12 | Anyway , James Brown — who ‘ poached ’ me from Sounds to procure information on ‘ rock ’ music , an alien genre to NME staff flourishing on a staple diet of Ecstasy and Ribena in the halcyon daze of ‘ indie dance ’ in 1990 — ordered me out on my first ‘ job ’ to interview Page Three ‘ model ’ Maria Whittaker , whose debut single had stormed the UK Charts at Number 138 … with Kevin Cummins … |
| 13 | A dream I had not so long ago took me back to my first year in Vienna . |
| 14 | Later that day we went back to my first house . |
| 15 | ‘ But I went back to my first dancing teacher who taught me when I was 12 and it was like five hours of physiotherapy every day . |
| 16 | He would have been at the Crystal Palace too , willing me on to my first AAA Championship title , revelling in the rivalry , matching the best of the youngsters from Haringey . |