Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I scored the first time after eight minutes . |
| 32 | I await the first sighting of this crucial volume with the awed anticipation of a Crusader waiting for the Holy Grail to arrive through the post . |
| 33 | The ground felt as I imagined a first world war battlefield might feel — all pits and trenches — but dry . |
| 34 | Shortly after Christmas I received the first batch of rereleases from the Savoy label , or rather from the Nippon Columbia Co . |
| 35 | Why do n't I do the first half and you have an early night , and I 'll wake you at two o'clock ? ’ , knowing full well how awful it is to be woken out of a deep sleep at 2am to start work . |
| 36 | erm , erm feel like they 're getting the benefit again , again and again , you now make the costs of at every point they take another , they 've got more coming in , erm in terms of cash and er at every point I seem to loose , I loose the first case in ninety one and everything now seems to go against me , it seems as though I do n't stand a chance any more . |
| 37 | Because of exclamation mark , and despite the lower case " w " , I read the first clause as complete , thus giving it fuller deictic impact . |
| 38 | I read the first sentence : ‘ It is always difficult to summarize in a page the life of a living giant without somehow reducing the giant to a mere man . ’ |
| 39 | I chaired the first meeting in the institute . |
| 40 | I flunked the first question : ‘ On which circuit was the first Formula 1 world championship event held ? ’ |
| 41 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
| 42 | I have to say I enjoyed the first programme much more , simply because of the subject we had to discuss on the second one , which was Christmas . |
| 43 | ‘ I know the first match is the hardest to get through . |
| 44 | I know the first lot of bits I got in were all employment officers |
| 45 | As I assume the first year warranty will soon be over , I suggest you have the problem investigated . |
| 46 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 47 | It 's interesting , actually , since I teach a first year class of biologists , where we do have rather more girls than boys , that erm as a class it works very well , possibly better than some of our own chemistry classes where there are fewer girls , and I do n't know whether this is because of the mix or not . |
| 48 | Cos I spent , I spent the first week of the holiday mainly with Shelley . |
| 49 | I remember the first inservice training on AIDS that Switchboard held . |
| 50 | I remember the first TV documentary I saw about gays — the participants appeared only in silhouette and questions were couched in hushed and tragic tones . |
| 51 | I remember the first day I met him . |
| 52 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 53 | I remember the first gig I went to in Cleveland , the grand piano was two feet too short . |
| 54 | And I remember the first talkie I ever heard , I walked in the elite one night , with the wife and er as we walked in we hear a chap says I 'm I am . |
| 55 | I remember the first time I offered Dana one of these cigarettes : he accepted one , and I then took one myself . |
| 56 | ‘ I remember the first time we went to bed and did the business . |
| 57 | I remember the first time I used the frail I got a clout o' the skull that I 'd remember . |
| 58 | " I remember the first time I tried that , " said Kian . |
| 59 | I remember the first time Sarah and I met . |
| 60 | And I remember the first time , I poured a whole jugful of water in . |