Example sentences of "[v-ing] my first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure she wants you to extend the same warmth to her that you extend to me by using my first name . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Going out there on a new board and catching my first wave when I had n't surfed Pipeline for a year only reaffirms my confidence . ’ |
| 3 | I remember him relating it again the first time I returned to see him after gaining my first post as butler — to a Mr and Mrs Muggeridge in their relatively modest house in Allshot , Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | Short stories , memoirs , diary notes , and finally , I started writing my first novel . |
| 5 | I celebrated that night by ordering my first pint of beer and lighting up my first Woodbine . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Also to you — the readers — for buying my first book , and for the many letters I received , mainly nostalgic . |
| 8 | Another early memory was getting my first train set . |
| 9 | If I went in , he would insist on cutting my hair himself and embarrass me by telling those waiting that he could remember cutting my first curls . |
| 10 | ‘ I keep telling myself that it will stand me in good stead when I 'm about 40 and doing my first Isolde ! ’ |
| 11 | After joining the AIB in July 1955 and doing my first investigation on an Auster that had ditched in the Bristol Channel in August of that year , I was sent out to Tripoli , Libya in September 1955 to assist Penny Garnons-Williams ( known to many in the aviation industry as Garney Bill ) to investigate an accident to a BOAC Argonaut that had crashed at Castel Benito in a sand storm . |
| 12 | My second meeting with him was when , on commencing my first job at a rubber factory 3 years later , he was the senior apprentice sent by the foreman to show me what my work entailed . |
| 13 | I AM just finishing my first year at college . |
| 14 | Before having my first child four years ago , I worked for several years as a secretary at the head office of Sainsbury 's in Canterbury , and a further year as a personal assistant for Kent County Council . |
| 15 | I remember the feeling of joy on having my first cartoon accepted . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I am ecstatic about this , it is like winning my first cap not my 23rd . ’ |
| 18 | I was making my first inroads into a superb specimen of the amber fluid when Sally walked in . |
| 19 | I must first thank you and your colleagues at the Centre for Continuing Education for making my first trip across the Atlantic and to Montreal such an enjoyable and useful one . |