Example sentences of "i [vb past] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Later , because of my own initiative in originating the idea , I became the first Radio Editor in Canada , which meant writing a daily column about radio programmes , stars , and networks . |
2 | As I now personally from one of my previous lives in nineteen eighty-two , when I became the first Director of the newly independent National Federation of Community Organisations . |
3 | Now I became the second edition . |
4 | I asked the Second Son . |
5 | I walked in through the door and , feeling a bit lost , I asked the first person I saw if he knew whether the Social Secretary was around . |
6 | Latter and I made the second ascent of Fer de Lance on sight , confirming the E6 6b grade . |
7 | I was not aware that circumcision might be a painful , controversial , and perhaps an unethical procedure , but I planned the next attempt in compliance with the editor 's requests . |
8 | Actually I , I passed the next star test . |
9 | ‘ I got the first ferry I could after I heard … |
10 | … half the year had gone , the clear smoke-free distances of early summer a thing of the past , and midsummer day over , before I got the first clue . |
11 | I remember being thrilled when I got the first whicker of recognition from my horse and most people feel happier and more confident riding a horse they know — even if it is n't well behaved ! |
12 | I got the first shot in : one good punch . |
13 | However , I had hardly got started before I got the first complaint . |
14 | You were looking a bit sorry for yourself when we came back cos he buys flowers and he gives , so he 'll buy them the day before , I got the next day , there their making in all that |
15 | I got The Last Boy Scout . |
16 | I got The Last Boy Scout . |
17 | But it 's still the same , but it 's the pains that I got the last time that 's gon it 's like sharp pains that 's going round about , just the insides of the nipple . |
18 | I tried the next time with a very dapper man , all pinstripes and umbrella . |
19 | Once I found the first publisher , it just snowballed . ’ |
20 | ‘ I found the first steps of the next pitch were very difficult , and the rock rather pushed one out . |
21 | It was one reason why I caught the first flight home . |
22 | In March 1951 , I reported the first immunization of children with live attenuated polio type II virus at a meeting of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in Hershey , Pennsylvania . |
23 | Then when I proposed the next day , and made you tell me exactly how far you 'd gone with other men — ’ |
24 | Under that system I used the first term almost entirely as a preparation for the teaching practice itself . |
25 | I used the last night , cos she . |
26 | I recognised the Second Son . |
27 | She put some spring water on my wart one evening and it was gone when I woke the next day . ’ |
28 | I woke the next morning , wondering if my father had come back or not . |
29 | He still was n't back when I returned that night , and when I woke the next morning , his side of the bed had n't been slept in . |
30 | ‘ I 'm just trying to get some perspective here , ’ he said as I twisted the last coldness from my beer bottle . |