Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was also aware of certain information recently imparted to the Bank on the subject matter of the investigation of the defendants ( to which I referred in my first affidavit ) by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and , in addition , certain information which had been obtained by the Bank in the course of its previous supervision on the [ defendants ] . |
| 2 | I am reminded of the lesson I took in a school in Sylhet which I described in my first article and the way the understanding of the task helped the children to understand the English I was using . |
| 3 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 4 | At 8.30 am I drove to my first appointment in Balderton Street , planning to buy a hat at Miss Selfridge afterwards , en route to the filming . |
| 5 | I returned to my first and most potent objection . |
| 6 | The short brown gym tunic with its blue and gold woven girdle that I wore on my first day at Elmwood was a symbol of entry into a new world of lady-like refinement and academic elitism . |
| 7 | I bit into my first kourabiè , and gave an appreciative nod . |
| 8 | Well I I thought after your first two clues it was Green 's Windmill . |
| 9 | ‘ I was just going on 14 and I went to my first gig the Stray Cats . |
| 10 | I went to my first gay pub . |
| 11 | I was only a little girl when I went to my first funeral . |
| 12 | I went for my first visit to the therapist feeling panicky , nervous , hopeful and depressed . |
| 13 | I had first seen her in the desert when I went for my first ‘ bedu ’ breakfast and the prospective bridegroom 's brother had played fox in the hen coop . |
| 14 | That was the year I went on my first diet . |
| 15 | Just before I went on my first furlough after five years ' service , the Bishop of Rangoon , Norman Tubbs , called me and told me that on my return from furlough he wanted me to take over the training of the Burmese clergy . |
| 16 | Twenty-five years later in West Mercia , as a newly promoted superintendent , I listened at my first conference as my peers discussed a chief constable 's agreement which allowed officers to discard ties in hot weather and wear open-necked shirts . |
| 17 | The massed volumes that take up the wall next to the window are evidence of the research I did for my first and second books : one a dual biography of two late Victorian figures , the politician George Wyndham and the poet and political campaigner Wilfred Scawen Blunt ; the other a life of the Edwardian Prime Minister Arthur Balfour . |
| 18 | In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live . |
| 19 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked like they had been taken anywhere . |
| 20 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked as if they could have been taken anywhere . |
| 21 | While working as a record plugger for EMI he met lots of chart artists which led to his first stage appearances . |
| 22 | Earlier , Lord Justice Taylor unveiled a plaque to mark the official opening of the building , which dealt with its first cases last May . |
| 23 | POLICE were yesterday still waiting to interview a man who was badly burnt in a fire which swept through his first floor flat in the early hours of Sunday morning . |
| 24 | Scottish rider Niall Mackenzie retired after five laps when his Yamaha developed engine trouble , and mechanical problems also forced out Londoner Peter Graves , who qualified for his first grand prix , and Irishman Eddie Laycock . |
| 25 | She will be paid £4.5 million for the follow-up , compared with the £1.5 million she got for her first Disney singing-nun movie . |
| 26 | I remember once talking with a woman who replied to my first question , ‘ No , I find it hard to believe . ’ |
| 27 | Evidently that had been broken off very soon after she arrived on her first station . |
| 28 | He announced his intention to nominate , as the new Administrator of the agency , William Ruckelshaus , the man who served as its first Administrator from 1970 to 1973 . |
| 29 | Sometimes she thought of her first husband and wondered briefly whether gross infidelity was really sufficient cause for divorce and whether faithless men were not perhaps — overall — more amusing than the other sort . |
| 30 | She knew with her first woman , when she was twenty . |