Example sentences of "i [vb past] a first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I produced a first version of that track in a week and they had it on the TV the next night !
2 The ground felt as I imagined a first world war battlefield might feel — all pits and trenches — but dry .
3 And I won a first prize so I said , .
4 I had a first cousin called Lady Ursula Talbot who had an enormous nose .
5 I had a first class team of managers , with Eric Newton as head of the engineering section — he had been doing the job for years before I even joined the Branch — and Dick Westlake , who was a former colleague in KLM , as one Principal Inspector .
6 Following a telephone conversation in late February in which Mr. expressed possible BWB interest in collaborating on a project to repair certain sections of the towpath , I had a first site meeting with him on 5th March .
7 I wanted to see , feel and experience the country with no influence from any other source , I wanted a first impression .
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