Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I there soon experienced my first dealings with corporal punishment . |
| 2 | Well I did n't know anything about any none of us knew anything about anybody in those days , cos it was so early on in the , and we were n't , I was influenced more by people like blues er black blues singers , American blues singers like Muddy and Lightning , all those old blues , , er they were the heroes for me that I grew up with playing skiffle and and then Lonnie became my first Lonnie became by first hero and I er modelled a lot of my early singing on Lonnie . |
| 3 | South bank as well 'cause that 's where I started , where I got my first board ever . |
| 4 | On the first Thursday , I got my first dose of an ‘ on-call ’ period . |
| 5 | Er and I , I do n't know whether that was where I got my first idea of being a nurse . |
| 6 | Alan explains : ‘ I got my first chance of management about 10 years ago when Ronnie McFall was in charge at the Oval . |
| 7 | And it was n't a shock when I got my first hit record because I was trying for that all our lives and so she backed me all the way . |
| 8 | Then I splashed out and got my first Alembic — cost me £890 in 1980 , serious cash . |
| 9 | When I got my first laser printer many moons ago , my bank manager almost had a heart attack . |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose I really understood what was at stake when I got my first glimpse of the castle , ’ she admitted , unable to disguise a rather wry smile . |
| 11 | After acquiring the relevant paper qualifications in 1979 I got my first sales and marketing job in 1980 . |
| 12 | I had really long hair once , it was way past my bum and when I got my first record deal they wanted me to have it all cut off — it was a total disaster . |
| 13 | I got my first taste of the Masters with Tom . |
| 14 | Like many visitors before me , I got my first taste of Greece on crete , the largest and most southerly of the Greek islands . |
| 15 | When I got my first job out of training it was at Worthing in a juvenile leading role and I got my Equity card because I had been chosen . |
| 16 | So I got my I got my first christmas present . |
| 17 | I first became involved with releasing barn owls into the wild about two years ago , shortly after i got my first breeding pair , Barny and Mrs Barny . |
| 18 | It was just four months ago that met my first contras face to face . |
| 19 | I met my first boyfriend when I was in the fifth year at school , and we were together for six years . |
| 20 | Somehow , even at the age of five when I made my first visits to Colchester Zoo , I felt they stood out from other birds . |
| 21 | I was 19 and still studying at RADA when I made my first TV appearance . |
| 22 | The front door was locked , and that was when I made my first acquaintance with a venerable traditional figure , the sereno , an old man with a stick , a big brass badge and a large bunch of keys . |
| 23 | In these labs I made my first acquaintance with physics , scattering iron filings on a paper placed over a magnet to produce a pattern which I then had to reproduce in an exercise book . |
| 24 | Having done my first sound broadcast in the Forties and made my first television appearance in 1952 , I can remember when Lord Reith 's belief that broadcasting 's prime function was to inform , to entertain and give all sides a chance to state their case , still reigned . |
| 25 | I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink . |
| 26 | I brought a keyboard and an eight-track machine , and Juan and I set it up in my apartment on campus , even though we were n't supposed to play music loud.Then I made my first record , Triangle Of Love . |
| 27 | He goes on with self-glorifying statements like , ‘ I made my first tube amplifier in 1957 ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | If so , you will sympathise with my own feelings when I unearthed my first coin dating from the English Civil War : a Charles I shilling , probably minted in Oxford in 1642 . |
| 30 | My career was shaped , I suppose , when I sold my first sweater to a smart shop in Stratford at the tender age of sixteen . |