Example sentences of "my [noun] be the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | My parents thought my marriage was the first sensible thing I 'd ever done . |
| 2 | My name was the first to go on the Dux board in the school hall of the brand-new , glass-walled building only just completed the year before . |
| 3 | My wife was the first to notice it : running a bath was n't what it used to be ; no more gush of water , just a diminishing trickle . |
| 4 | I wo n't linger on the shingle flats , for I 'd come to climb , and the route of my choice was the first to be recorded in Wales . |
| 5 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 6 | My generation is the first in Britain that has spent its whole career in politics within the European Community . |
| 7 | Yet women , of my generation were the first to have the chance to refuse burdens that just could n't be borne , to understand that it was possible to refuse them without censure , to realise that if you still could n't have everything , you could at least make some choices about what you could have . |