Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] my first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was surprised to discover on my first full day at Thornfield that Mrs Fairfax was not in fact the owner , as I had assumed , but the housekeeper , and that my new master was a Mr Rochester , who was often away from home . |
| 2 | Going to my first feminist conference in the late seventies : the thrill of seeing so many women together , and , even more so , seeing so many lesbians openly showing their affections for each other . |
| 3 | Well look at this board look at my first two I 've done here as an example . |
| 4 | I wondered what to expect at my first Annual General Meeting . |
| 5 | I went to my first gay pub . |
| 6 | Still suffering occasional wooziness from the altitude , I sat on the steps , turned my face to the warm sun and was subjected to my first unsuccessful robbery : two little nicks in the zip pocket of my top . |
| 7 | Yeah but I , part of this comes from my first real , my only training at all and my first real experience in printing was working for this guy called Robert Dothard . |
| 8 | I believe that the lessons learnt from my first five years of trial and error could have been imparted to me in a few days by any half-decent panner . |