Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first heard the first noise I thought what the bloody hell 's that and I turned the sound down . |
| 2 | It was the first winter I became ugly : |
| 3 | She was the first patient I saw with pseudochyluria . |
| 4 | ‘ The first day I went into school wearing shalwar kameez a teacher said to me , ‘ Are you all right , Yasmin ? |
| 5 | He said the first day I went , I , I never sold anything except a couple of por a bit dubious , so he cooked half a dozen sausages , one bit of fish and did a few chips and said I bet we 'll be sitting here all day well every bugger come for fish and chips , had n't got none had they ! |
| 6 | On the first day I doubt whether you could feel them at all ! |
| 7 | On the first day I pass the acid Fitzgerald test . |
| 8 | That was the first day I realised that the war was really over . |
| 9 | and then the first day I stop , I 've usually got flu , I 'm exhausted , I ca n't get out of bed , I feel rotten , but if I keep going for like , three weeks to a month , just on six hours , that 's fine , but the first day I stop I 'm like , in bed for a week ill usually . |
| 10 | and then the first day I stop , I 've usually got flu , I 'm exhausted , I ca n't get out of bed , I feel rotten , but if I keep going for like , three weeks to a month , just on six hours , that 's fine , but the first day I stop I 'm like , in bed for a week ill usually . |
| 11 | On the first day I made sur I stayed with that man all day . |
| 12 | I remember the first day I met him . |
| 13 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 14 | Odd — I 've never dreamt about Cal , even though we 've been friends ever since we sat next to each other the first day I walked into that school . |
| 15 | I loved St Paul 's from the first day I walked through the gates , I suppose partly because no one told me off for working too hard . |
| 16 | I 'd never been in hospital before , and after the first day I felt well enough to notice things like the faint smell , which I thought was of death , but which was disinfectant , and to be mildly infuriated by hospital routine . |
| 17 | I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience |
| 18 | It 's the first day I 've been with them and I thought I do n't know . |
| 19 | And , the first day I started right enough , they were awful kind , awful kind they were English people , I think . |
| 20 | Right from the first day I worked hard , no longer rested on my oars and as a result topped the class list . |
| 21 | Er the first day I did n't stay dinner . |
| 22 | ‘ The first man I hear saying anything bad about our mistress will receive this in his face , ’ and he banged his great heavy hand down on the maltster 's table . |
| 23 | The first man I saw was a Daily Mirror photographer and he said , ‘ I 'm surprised to see you here , ' ’ and I said , ‘ I 'm quite surprised myself . ' ’ |
| 24 | Sarfraz Nawaz was the first man I saw do it , but most Pakistan fast bowlers have the ability to swing the old ball . |
| 25 | The first man I saw was Simkin . |
| 26 | The first man I met was an old fellow sitting on the church wall smoking a pipe . |
| 27 | ‘ It 'll not be the first man I 've seen after he 's tried to fill up a car with a lighted cigarette in his mouth — nor the last . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’ |
| 29 | Right but the first year I mean you wan na get the I 'm surprised |
| 30 | erm when I went the first year I looked at them . |