Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] my first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 2 | Although I had no idea then what species of bird it was , the picture was firmly fixed in my mind ; years later I instantly recognised it in my first ornithological guide , P. A. D. Hollom 's The Popular Handbook of British Birds . |
| 3 | I did choose it in my first book , The Selfish Gene , so I thought that here I would fly a kite for a somewhat less-fashionable theory ( although it recently has started gaining ground ) , which seems to me to have at least a sporting chance of being right . |
| 4 | His son , Wilfred , a pupil-teacher at St. Martin 's , taught me during my first year in the Boys ' School . |
| 5 | I remember her at my first supper at Grove House and it was evident from listening to those in the know that Nancy was not just a someone , but a very special someone . |
| 6 | I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh . |
| 7 | I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 . |
| 8 | Maybe I can make it to my first home game in 15 years ! |
| 9 | It was the latter who inspired me on my first day at the tech . |
| 10 | pair call me by my first name too as if |
| 11 | Lady Diana stayed on and accompanied me on my first walk with the pram out of the garden . |
| 12 | Reminds me of my first branch chair , an ex-miner , who used to give me a lift home in his Jag . |
| 13 | This dress reminds me of my first long dress . |