Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says : ‘ I 'm not motivated by money , otherwise I would have quit after I 'd made my first eight million dollars , which was enough for me . |
| 2 | I 'd had my first experience with American enterprise . |
| 3 | I said , actually , I 'd ordered his first I said , but I thought I 'd treat you . |
| 4 | I mean , I myself , for instance , after I 'd published my first book on psychoanalysis in nineteen eighty was summoned to the House of Commons by and given a dinner , in the House of Commons Restaurant , which is n't very good actually , least it was n't then , and effectively I was told by this great man was , noticed , had a very high opinion of his own ego , that erm , you know the left was in charge of psychoanalysis in this country , and had better conform or shut up . |
| 5 | By the time I came to do my first talk , her feathers were a lovely tawny colour with large patches flecked with grey and smaller specks of black and white . |
| 6 | I immediately set about trying to fulfil Mr Farraday 's wishes , but as you know , finding recruits of a satisfactory standard is no easy task nowadays , and although I was pleased to hire Rosemary and Agnes on Mrs Clements 's recommendation , I had got no further by the time I came to have my first business meeting with Mr Farraday during the short preliminary visit he made to our shores in the spring of last year . |
| 7 | ‘ The day we saw the outstanding location of Crystal Springs House was the day I decided to develop my first hotel . |
| 8 | Short stories , memoirs , diary notes , and finally , I started writing my first novel . |
| 9 | I could not believe that I had got my first job . |
| 10 | Before that , in 1963 , I had published my first article — also on an aspect of the language of advertising . |
| 11 | But I had learned my first lesson . |
| 12 | I had to admit my first impression was not quite what I had expected : instead of bold cliffs and mountain peaks , all we could see from the heaving deck of the boat was a seemingly endless beach of black shingle fringed by white breakers . |
| 13 | I had won my first major title . |
| 14 | I met my teacher 's teacher once , fairly soon after I had finished my first instruments . |
| 15 | This was not how I wished to catch my first sight of the fabled city of Lazarillo de Tormes and of Gil Blas , who in Le Sage 's novel made the journey to Salamanca only from Oviedo in the north . |
| 16 | The conference was the first to be held by the union since the 1981 convention which had followed its first registration as a legal union [ see p. 31213 ] . |
| 17 | The Cuban missile crisis heightened fears on the Continent that a US-Soviet nuclear conflict could occur without any European control over events and de Gaulle decided that France , which had exploded its first atomic bomb in 1960 , must develop its own independent nuclear force . |
| 18 | Loops of wiring and cable ran overhead , loosely tacked at intervals to the unpainted ceiling ; it was the kind of Who cares , no-one 'll see it protocol that had applied behind the scenes in the shopping mall where she 'd landed her first Saturday job . |
| 19 | And the years rolled away , and it was a different room , yet still the same , the room where she 'd had her first ; old white paint with the grudging cleanliness of not quite enough scrubbing ; the sticky rubber mat under her bottom , that made her wonder what other bottoms had lain on it , wonder desperately enough to take her mind off her panic at the instrument 's entry onto her , and the thought , it 's like the first screw you ever had — why do we do it , why do we go on doing it ? |
| 20 | She 'd had her first transfusions and was preparing to go to the hospital for her next one when world events took over . |
| 21 | After she 'd taken her first sip , she said : ‘ Play it — go ahead , ’ and sat on the bed to listen where she would n't have to meet his eye . |
| 22 | Avril , 49 , who 'd divorced her first husband in 1987 after 20 years of marriage , first met Peter through their local church in Saltburn , near Middlesbrough . |
| 23 | The charity 's annual conference was where she chose to make her first public appearance following the controversy and she broke down in tears at the vote of confidence they gave her . |
| 24 | And she still remembered how , as the car began to climb into the lake land hills , she had seen her first mountain — a sharp blue crag that , outlined against the sky , had made her sit up and stare . |
| 25 | She was stiff and tense in every muscle but she had done her first good day 's work since the discovery of the murder . |
| 26 | She had passed her first Challenge ! |
| 27 | It was Louisa as much as the doctor who supervised the carrying of Emilia into the Hall , holding her cold hand , murmuring small phrases of consolation and encouragement as the improvised litter was lifted carefully up the stairs and the invalid laid in the same bed where she had passed her first night at Easterness . |
| 28 | It was from the card inside that she had learned their first names : Teodor and Sophie . |
| 29 | Bluebeard had been a private joke — an exclamation she had been unable to stifle as they 'd rounded the cliff at the head of the valley and she had got her first glimpse of the imposing turreted Castell Rocamar . |
| 30 | She had divorced her first husband because he showed signs of becoming like her father , and now , at her second attempt , the man she had married , while not apparently planning to emulate her parent , yet found him admirable . |