Example sentences of "i [verb] [pos pn] [num ord] [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 made my second journey to Cosford in 1980 , an Olympic year — though I had no aspirations in that direction . |
| 9 | And some silly woman crashed her tray to the floor just as I made my second entrance — disgraceful ! ’ |
| 10 | A month later , I made my third trip to Rhodesia . |
| 11 | The organist and I finished more or less together and I turned to him for reassurance as I announced my next song : ‘ And now , ‘ ’ Summer Time' ’ . ' |
| 12 | I mean his first touch is decent he 's gone past there 's a suggestion I think that he he could have gone down . |
| 13 | No I mean your first name . |
| 14 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I met her last year , you know . ’ |
| 17 | I met my first boyfriend when I was in the fifth year at school , and we were together for six years . |
| 18 | My career was shaped , I suppose , when I sold my first sweater to a smart shop in Stratford at the tender age of sixteen . |
| 19 | ‘ I got yer second name and it was easy after that . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Alan explains : ‘ I got my first chance of management about 10 years ago when Ronnie McFall was in charge at the Oval . |
| 22 | When I got my first laser printer many moons ago , my bank manager almost had a heart attack . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Er and I , I do n't know whether that was where I got my first idea of being a nurse . |
| 25 | South bank as well 'cause that 's where I started , where I got my first board ever . |
| 26 | On the first Thursday , I got my first dose of an ‘ on-call ’ period . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I got my first taste of the Masters with Tom . |
| 30 | Like many visitors before me , I got my first taste of Greece on crete , the largest and most southerly of the Greek islands . |