Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] the first " in BNC.
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1 | Each week , on shopping day , I tear out the first page and have a ready-made shopping list . |
2 | I incurred a second funeral director 's bill the same week as I paid off the first . |
3 | I walked down the first fairway in a relaxed and peaceful mood , despite my early departure from my bed . |
4 | I remember clearly the first time he played our first single . |
5 | so we set off going and I thought well the first ones were , did n't ask for a proof of doing it , just asked to do it |
6 | Well he star I think probably the first He must have been a joiner for a wee while before he was you were just asked to do this the same I suppose as any other job any other joiner job |
7 | I said , well the important thing is Jan if you are like this you obviously did n't like , there 's no way I 'm going to meet her you 're obviously thinking it over I said so the first thing you 've got ta do is turn up on Monday and meet her cos erm , then well you 'll know . |
8 | I had n't the first idea what she meant . |
9 | I had not the first notion of mechanics , but you with your capable hands worked on the machine until , after running with it , pushing it along , we were able to make the engine tick over again . |
10 | Yeah , the first thing I 've ever the first time I 've shaved my legs , I forgot the water . |
11 | ‘ I have n't the first idea , ’ he said in deliberate clipped tones . |
12 | I know how to make it do all kinds of things — including a few that are not in the manufacturer 's manual — but I have not the first idea as to how it actually works . |
13 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |