Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pron] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's nothing to worry about — you should have heard what happened at my first interview . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Detente ’ quickly became a pejorative term , and President Reagan , elected in 1980 , referred to the USSR in a celebrated phrase as an ‘ evil empire ’ ; the Russians , he declared at his first press conference , would ‘ lie and cheat and pursue their ends of world domination ’ . |
| 4 | There was no doubting the eagerness of many colleges to respond to the challenge and the opportunity , and the Board — containing a number of lively young university people and interested employers — was torn between its anxiety to go ahead quickly and the need to ensure that it established what it called at its first meeting ‘ lasting standards ’ . |
| 5 | No , it started at our first show in Glasgow , and then we got support slots with Mudhoney before we were a developed band . |
| 6 | Twenty-five years later in West Mercia , as a newly promoted superintendent , I listened at my first conference as my peers discussed a chief constable 's agreement which allowed officers to discard ties in hot weather and wear open-necked shirts . |
| 7 | THE teenager charged in the murder of a German tourist sobbed at his first court appearance last night as police staked out several Miami sites searching for his girlfriend and suspected accomplice . |
| 8 | ACTRESS Mia Farrow wept at her first Thanksgiving holiday without long-time lover Woody Allen , a friend revealed yesterday . |
| 9 | As we discussed at our first meeting and as I subsequently discussed with Angela Rumbold , it was very clear that unless there was a preparedness on the part of the Home Office to take its hands off the management of the Prison Service in its day to day business and allow itself to be constrained by matters of policy only , then it would not be possible to effect the changes which you deem desirable and which have become very clear to me as being necessary during the talks I have had and the visits I have made . |
| 10 | The Bill failed at its first reading by a majority of forty-six , but legislation against deaf discrimination has remained high on the BDA 's agenda . |
| 11 | She knew as little about him now , his parents , his life , as she had at their first meeting . |