Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Oh I got it first time .
2 I got it first time .
3 So she goes , I want it first thing tomorrow morning , and I mean like this is talking like , we 're talking major here !
4 Well well I say I rang them first time .
5 I rang them first thing , but no one fitting your description has been reported missing anywhere in the entire country as yet .
6 I saw it first time last week and it were great !
7 apparently she used to go out with him before she married Derek , I think her first husband was called .
8 He starts out with a full clip of ammo , but watch out ( Beadle 's about ) , it 's limited — make sure you hit 'im first time .
9 Yeah but it 's flashing just as long for those who bought it first time round , is n't it ?
10 Lewis takes the free kick himself it was n't a good one dropped in short and was headed away by Gemmell to Black who releases it first time trying to set Collimore free .
11 Like she said you see her first thing in the morning .
12 Thomson floats it in straight into the hands of Tommy Wright who hits it first time quite sensibly but a bit too strongly straight back to his opposite number .
13 Those who missed it first time round , read on .
14 Looking over Dostoevsky 's shoulder , we find him first writing ‘ small yellow glass ’ , then deleting ‘ small ’ ; and writing ‘ water ’ then adding ‘ yellow warm ’ to the water , then deleting ‘ warm ’ — the final text uniting an apocalyptic starkness of yellow meets yellow with the topicality of Petersburg 's notoriously filthy water supply , a subject of much comment and complaint in the newspapers .
15 And we did it first half , and when we were in possession , we were winning it in their sort of last third of the field , and that was giving us a great chance to create scoring chances and that 's what we 've done again today which has worked very well .
16 He had heard that Newgate was a hell-hole but now he experienced it first hand and understood why some prisoners went quickly insane .
17 He telephoned me first thing . ’
18 The meaning of ‘ volley ’ here is : when a ball comes to the player and he hits it first time at the goal before it touches the ground .
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