Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] first " in BNC.

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1 I was also aware of certain information recently imparted to the Bank on the subject matter of the investigation of the defendants ( to which I referred in my first affidavit ) by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and , in addition , certain information which had been obtained by the Bank in the course of its previous supervision on the [ defendants ] .
2 I am reminded of the lesson I took in a school in Sylhet which I described in my first article and the way the understanding of the task helped the children to understand the English I was using .
3 When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of .
4 At 8.30 am I drove to my first appointment in Balderton Street , planning to buy a hat at Miss Selfridge afterwards , en route to the filming .
5 I returned to my first and most potent objection .
6 The short brown gym tunic with its blue and gold woven girdle that I wore on my first day at Elmwood was a symbol of entry into a new world of lady-like refinement and academic elitism .
7 I bit into my first kourabiè , and gave an appreciative nod .
8 Well I I thought after your first two clues it was Green 's Windmill .
9 ‘ I was just going on 14 and I went to my first gig the Stray Cats .
10 I went to my first gay pub .
11 I was only a little girl when I went to my first funeral .
12 I went for my first visit to the therapist feeling panicky , nervous , hopeful and depressed .
13 I had first seen her in the desert when I went for my first ‘ bedu ’ breakfast and the prospective bridegroom 's brother had played fox in the hen coop .
14 That was the year I went on my first diet .
15 Just before I went on my first furlough after five years ' service , the Bishop of Rangoon , Norman Tubbs , called me and told me that on my return from furlough he wanted me to take over the training of the Burmese clergy .
16 Twenty-five years later in West Mercia , as a newly promoted superintendent , I listened at my first conference as my peers discussed a chief constable 's agreement which allowed officers to discard ties in hot weather and wear open-necked shirts .
17 The massed volumes that take up the wall next to the window are evidence of the research I did for my first and second books : one a dual biography of two late Victorian figures , the politician George Wyndham and the poet and political campaigner Wilfred Scawen Blunt ; the other a life of the Edwardian Prime Minister Arthur Balfour .
18 In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live .
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