Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I was 19 and still studying at RADA when I made my first TV appearance .
2 Somehow , even at the age of five when I made my first visits to Colchester Zoo , I felt they stood out from other birds .
3 The front door was locked , and that was when I made my first acquaintance with a venerable traditional figure , the sereno , an old man with a stick , a big brass badge and a large bunch of keys .
4 In these labs I made my first acquaintance with physics , scattering iron filings on a paper placed over a magnet to produce a pattern which I then had to reproduce in an exercise book .
5 I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink .
6 I brought a keyboard and an eight-track machine , and Juan and I set it up in my apartment on campus , even though we were n't supposed to play music loud.Then I made my first record , Triangle Of Love .
7 He goes on with self-glorifying statements like , ‘ I made my first tube amplifier in 1957 ’ .
8 I mean his first touch is decent he 's gone past there 's a suggestion I think that he he could have gone down .
9 No I mean your first name .
10 If so , you will sympathise with my own feelings when I unearthed my first coin dating from the English Civil War : a Charles I shilling , probably minted in Oxford in 1642 .
11 I met my first boyfriend when I was in the fifth year at school , and we were together for six years .
12 My career was shaped , I suppose , when I sold my first sweater to a smart shop in Stratford at the tender age of sixteen .
13 I got your first letter to Nanking on Saturday , and had plenty of letters at Sian — I 'm not sure that I got them all , in particular I got a letter from Tom sent on March 23 , but I 'm not sure whether that 's the one you referred to , anyway I 'm grateful to you all for keeping me in touch .
14 Alan explains : ‘ I got my first chance of management about 10 years ago when Ronnie McFall was in charge at the Oval .
15 When I got my first laser printer many moons ago , my bank manager almost had a heart attack .
16 And it was n't a shock when I got my first hit record because I was trying for that all our lives and so she backed me all the way .
17 Er and I , I do n't know whether that was where I got my first idea of being a nurse .
18 South bank as well 'cause that 's where I started , where I got my first board ever .
19 On the first Thursday , I got my first dose of an ‘ on-call ’ period .
20 I had really long hair once , it was way past my bum and when I got my first record deal they wanted me to have it all cut off — it was a total disaster .
21 When I got my first job out of training it was at Worthing in a juvenile leading role and I got my Equity card because I had been chosen .
22 I got my first taste of the Masters with Tom .
23 Like many visitors before me , I got my first taste of Greece on crete , the largest and most southerly of the Greek islands .
24 After acquiring the relevant paper qualifications in 1979 I got my first sales and marketing job in 1980 .
25 So I got my I got my first christmas present .
26 ‘ I suppose I really understood what was at stake when I got my first glimpse of the castle , ’ she admitted , unable to disguise a rather wry smile .
27 Oh I got it first time .
28 I got it first time .
29 I changed my first name because I actually felt I was a new person .
30 I caught my first glimpse of Jane through their open door .
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