Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As show jumper and trainer John Bunyan told me on our first lesson ( see next month 's diary ) : ‘ You have to work out the difference between ‘ Ca n't ’ and ‘ Wo n't ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Molly congratulated the 16 successful candidates at this year 's examination , presented certificates to those who were present and welcomed them to their first training day as qualified teachers . |
| 6 | His son , Wilfred , a pupil-teacher at St. Martin 's , taught me during my first year in the Boys ' School . |
| 7 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 8 | I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh . |
| 9 | I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 . |
| 10 | After settling the children into their hotel , the team took them on their first visit — to Disney 's Magic Kingdom , a giant playground of spectacular rides . |
| 11 | ‘ I saw you through your first marriage , so the least I can do is see you through your first murder investigation . ’ |
| 12 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 13 | Yet it was a most unlikely vehicle which took him to his first truly national conquest : a cart . |
| 14 | Once he was popping happily round a spooky 3′6″ course with tyres , polythene bags and barrels as fillers , I took him to his first indoor showjumping competition . |
| 15 | She took us to our first activity which was to learn the Pax Lodge song . |
| 16 | Because I sold it to him first . |
| 17 | It was the latter who inspired me on my first day at the tech . |
| 18 | When the wind dropped an occasional rumble in the distance reminded them of their first taste of war 's excitements . |
| 19 | Lady Diana stayed on and accompanied me on my first walk with the pram out of the garden . |
| 20 | Here , at Sally 's instigation , were many of the things Harriet remembered and loved from her childhood and growing-up years — the rosettes she had won with her pony , her graduation dress , her old collection of Osmond and Jackson records , her early attempts at photography , proudly framed , a pressed flower that reminded her of her first proper date . |
| 21 | Away to his right the lighthouse stood on its rocky island like a picture in a story book and it all reminded him of his first holiday by the sea at the age of seven . |
| 22 | It now reminded him of his first visit to DEEP . |
| 23 | He did not know why and , in the absence of an obvious explanation , attributed it to his first ever professional encounter with a psychiatrist . |
| 24 | Dishes of dainty ‘ amuse gueule ’ teased us into our first course of whole baby Brittany lobster , seascented and sat upon a diminutive salad of oil-tossed green leaves — simple you might think — splendid simplicity in fact . |