Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I did n't think much of it the first time . |
| 3 | ‘ Nothing ever comes of it the first time , anyway , ’ Mandy assured her . |
| 4 | ‘ I fell in love with her the first time I saw her , ’ Jean was saying . |
| 5 | Anyway I made completely the wrong decision with her with her the first time . |
| 6 | I was lucky enough not to be court martialled , quite apart from getting away with it the first night . |
| 7 | From time to time a little breeze , trapped in the courtyard , eddied and gusted in their direction , bringing with it the first hint of the sweet smell of decay . |
| 8 | I got right into it the first couple of series . |
| 9 | It was a sound which had sent a thrill through him the first time he had heard it . |
| 10 | I had felt at the instant the idea suggested itself to me the first glimmer of positive thought : suddenly I knew I was not going to sink . |
| 11 | This was evident to me the first time I attended a Karajan rehearsal , and even more so in the first of our long conversations . |
| 12 | These were Kirsty 's opening words to me the first time I saw her . |
| 13 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 14 | ‘ You may remember that I begged you to make love to me the first time , Penry Vaughan ! |
| 15 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
| 16 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 17 | ‘ And then set your thugs on me the first time my back 's turned . |
| 18 | ‘ It had the same effect on me the first time I saw it at night . ’ |
| 19 | copy to you the first time |
| 20 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |
| 21 | If I was left to it the first pint would go about |
| 22 | You listen to it the first time you do n't like it and then after that then |
| 23 | ‘ Well , I paid far too much for it the first time , so I 've put a really low reserve on it now . |