Example sentences of "[pos pn] first [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During my first attack I experienced some very inaccurate return fire which ceased just before I broke away . |
| 2 | On my first furlough I sought her out , and attended her course of lectures . |
| 3 | At first it amused me ; after my first year it drove me to distraction ; in my second year I learned to take a novel with me to work and , with a bit of luck , get through it in a two-day shoot . |
| 4 | That 's my first station I came to Zurich . |
| 5 | Early in my first tour I argued with my colleagues that I doubted it would be possible to ditch a Wimpy or a Whitley on water , particularly if there was a heavy swell . |
| 6 | Oh yes , yes in the , in the window yes I think and many and many a ticket I got when I first got married to my first wife I used to do my mother-in-law 's little tickets for all the various custards , and , and Eccles cakes and four for thruppence ha'penny it does n't of course I could print right you see she said , being a draughtsman I always could print right so I used to do the four for thruppence ha'penny . |
| 7 | But I did n't sell my first painting you know until 1975 . |
| 8 | Well I feel erm really that we should have a little bit more compassion amongst ourselves as women and when I had my first child I had a very good friend who went through the pregnancy with me who is waiting for a child to arrive by adoption , and she had the baby a couple of months after I had my baby . |
| 9 | I could do it , yeah , cos like my first night I did n't realise I was coughing so much but erm , her mum heard me , she said in the morning but |
| 10 | My first dream I can ever remember was on the first day of exams . |
| 11 | ‘ On my first day I felt so self-conscious , like a country bumpkin . ’ |
| 12 | Only three could read , and none could write , so at the end of my first day I felt quite depressed at the thought of the hard work ahead of me . |
| 13 | After my first day I felt really tired when I got home , as that day was the longest day of my life . |
| 14 | My first exam I 've got is June the fourth . |
| 15 | ‘ In my first season I was referee-of-the-year in Chesterfield . |
| 16 | His name was Joe Jack , and after my first visit I went back many times to hear him talk as he carved out the shape of a leather sole or polished a repaired shoe on his rotary machine . |
| 17 | For my first tournament you were paid next to nothing from the caddie-master 's box , and your tips depended on how far you progressed in the tournament . |
| 18 | On my first arrival it stunned me so as to be insupportable : but such is the power of habit that the same noise is now heard by me with pleasure ; in the night particularly , when in bed and afar , on my terrace , this music sounds in my ears as solemn , grand and melodious . |
| 19 | In my first flat I had a very large cupboard that was always filled with things I could never find a use for , or I had forgotten about . |
| 20 | ‘ My first term I was in there six times , ’ Hortensia said . |
| 21 | This 'll be my first attempt I would imagine that it wo n't make a lot of difference I could be wrong . |
| 22 | When I saw my first period I was scared to death . |
| 23 | There are compact , slow-growing forms of nearly all our native trees , but though these are always my first option I consider it a mistake to limit planting choice to our indigenous flora . |
| 24 | In my first job I was required to wear a suit . |
| 25 | And er my first job I had at Lyness was working for William on the tanks outside , tarmacadam under the tanks . |
| 26 | In my first article I wrote of the ingenuity and imagination I saw in children 's play in Asia . |
| 27 | In my first article I explained why there might be special difficulties for parents educated in Asia , as expectations differ . |
| 28 | On my first morning she had taken one look at me . |
| 29 | Most people find the environment of the laboratory unusual , and on their first night they typically take longer to get to sleep than is usual . |
| 30 | Most experimental studies of sleep now allow subjects a night of acclimatization to laboratory conditions , so that on their first night they are wired up in the usual way , but whatever recordings made are discarded , and the experiments proper begin on the second night . |