Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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1 | The next day I took the first bus back to New York . |
2 | Arrived at my chambers , I reviewed it over a pipe and the next day I wrote the first chapter . |
3 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
4 | ‘ The way I played the first set was not me , not my usual game . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Under that system I used the first term almost entirely as a preparation for the teaching practice itself . |
7 | Shortly after Christmas I received the first batch of rereleases from the Savoy label , or rather from the Nippon Columbia Co . |
8 | ‘ By the time I reached the first green my clubs were soaked . |