Example sentences of "my first book " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first printing of my first book — The Capel Letters — was of 3,000 copies . |
| 2 | I wrote my first book [ In Honour Bound , Arrow , £2.99 ] which was a very cathartic experience . |
| 3 | And , Miss Rene ’ — she paused here and put her hand out towards the eldest of the sisters — ‘ you gave me my first book , a book of poems . |
| 4 | AB : My first book was written very much under the influence of Busoni 's aesthetics . |
| 5 | Also , I am not a typist and I would never have written my first book if I did not know that Joyce was able and willing to decipher my handwriting , unsnarl my spelling and type the manuscript . |
| 6 | My first book , When Sixpence Was A Fortune , has reached many corners of the world — a lady told me her sister read some of the poems to an audience of exiled Scots in New Zealand and half the folk there ‘ wiz greetin' ’ ! |
| 7 | Also to you — the readers — for buying my first book , and for the many letters I received , mainly nostalgic . |
| 8 | While endeavouring to find a title for my first book , Colin Harvey , the publisher , suggested ‘ Poems for Daffodil Teas ’ . |
| 9 | Afterwards I was asked to write my first book , How to Identify Old Prints , intended to be a history and explanation of the various printing processes and a replacement for the Print Collector 's Handbook . |
| 10 | My first book at the Foundation was on Eritrea . |
| 11 | In my first book , Death and the Visiting Firemen , back in 1959 , I made my detective a schoolmaster ( as my father had been ) and was able to use a teacher 's summing-up of a class of twenty or thirty potential delinquents as a parallel for an investigator 's examining of six or so suspects . |
| 12 | I did choose it in my first book , The Selfish Gene , so I thought that here I would fly a kite for a somewhat less-fashionable theory ( although it recently has started gaining ground ) , which seems to me to have at least a sporting chance of being right . |
| 13 | As the mum of a 12-year-old son , we are both learning as we go along how to use the Amstrad 5086 , my son concentrating more or less on games and school related programs , myself for the odd game , but mainly word-processing ( I have just written my first book ) , genealogy and cheating on addressing the Christmas cards . |
| 14 | ‘ I had one of those in my first book , ’ said Rex brightly . |
| 15 | I mean , I myself , for instance , after I 'd published my first book on psychoanalysis in nineteen eighty was summoned to the House of Commons by and given a dinner , in the House of Commons Restaurant , which is n't very good actually , least it was n't then , and effectively I was told by this great man was , noticed , had a very high opinion of his own ego , that erm , you know the left was in charge of psychoanalysis in this country , and had better conform or shut up . |
| 16 | These paintings have a special place in my affections , because one of them was reproduced on the cover of my first book . |
| 17 | My first book was an experiment to see if I could write and it has just gone on from there . ’ |