Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] my [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'll blur over the consequences for Ulster and hurry on to my next point — the re-establishment of an Irish House of Lords , the first since 1801 . |
| 2 | Ignominiously , I was hustled out after my second question clutching my scrap of question paper . |
| 3 | I paid the woman next door a quid to look after Lee and Max , bought a roller and tray and a paste brush — another quid — borrowed a paste board , and at 8 a.m. skipped off to my first commission . |
| 4 | And that was where at the age of sixteen , I turned up for my first job interview . |
| 5 | For the six months leading up to my 40th birthday last April , I felt decidedly morbid . |
| 6 | I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest — clumsily . |
| 7 | Let's move on to my next guest . |
| 8 | And so it was then , that on a cold , Tuesday October evening I set off for my first match … |
| 9 | ‘ I GOT kicked out of my first band and that weekend I bought a guitar and immediately started recording the first Big Black record . |
| 10 | I was going to ask Jenette anyway , as it was coming up to my 40th birthday . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The reason for that is linked up with my second one . |
| 12 | I went up for my first term at York called Nigel and I came back as Oliver . |
| 13 | Later that day we went back to my first house . |
| 14 | ‘ But I went back to my first dancing teacher who taught me when I was 12 and it was like five hours of physiotherapy every day . |
| 15 | Carrying on from my last article let's look at the Harmonic Minor modes . |
| 16 | I am bowled over by my first day at school ; there are scores of us sitting at long bench desks in a vast wooden hut . |