Example sentences of "[conj] the first time i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , three nuts spat me out and I can honestly say that the first time I fell , headfirst , facing outwards , above the wall we had just climbed , I really did see stars . |
| 2 | I remember that the first time I came to Semer Water was as a boy on my bike . |
| 3 | I was already enough of an expert to recognise it — people had begun to give me books about birds of prey , so the first time I heard this sorrowful sound I searched through my books until I found out what it was . |
| 4 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 5 | Many of the records — ‘ pinched ’ from or discarded by his musical family — were scratched and worn , but it was Music with a capital ‘ M ’ and the first time I heard the Chopin first piano concerto , we nearly had a fight because I insisted on playing it right through four times . |
| 6 | ‘ And the first time I do it I hurt you . |
| 7 | Well the working in the pit and the first and the first time I went down the pit er the pit was er John Watson 's number four colliery in Motherwell . |
| 8 | ‘ Ely , ’ I said ( that was her name and the first time I 'd ever used it ) , ‘ I want to be free . ’ |
| 9 | But the first time I conducted it I needed an ambulance to take me home ! |
| 10 | But the first time I did use it I thought me inside were on fire . |
| 11 | When I introduce myself to a class that I am working with for the first time I frequently begin by asking them to sit close by me on the floor and listen with their eyes shut to the sound of a pair of Indian bells struck together . |