Example sentences of "to my first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He would have been at the Crystal Palace too , willing me on to my first AAA Championship title , revelling in the rivalry , matching the best of the youngsters from Haringey . |
2 | For another two and a half years I survived the mosquitoes and grew to love the people and was just looking forward to my first home leave when a letter from the Superior General appointed me to Vocations Director in the South of England ! |
3 | Maybe I can make it to my first home game in 15 years ! |
4 | And I have been told that as a baby I conformed to this pattern , in contrast to my first sister who was ‘ delicate ’ and my second sister who was ‘ placid ’ . |
5 | Oh yes , yes in the , in the window yes I think and many and many a ticket I got when I first got married to my first wife I used to do my mother-in-law 's little tickets for all the various custards , and , and Eccles cakes and four for thruppence ha'penny it does n't of course I could print right you see she said , being a draughtsman I always could print right so I used to do the four for thruppence ha'penny . |
6 | ‘ But I went back to my first dancing teacher who taught me when I was 12 and it was like five hours of physiotherapy every day . |
7 | ‘ True , ’ she acknowledged , ‘ and I 'm looking forward to my first experience of Formula One . ’ |
8 | 1964 , the year previous to my first spell of duty , had proved a particularly good one for Venturous . |
9 | I remember once talking with a woman who replied to my first question , ‘ No , I find it hard to believe . ’ |
10 | Despite our wariness of exclusivity , if I had a satisfactory answer to my first question ( somewhere along the lines of : we pay nothing and lose none of the candidate fee ! ) |
11 | Well if you say yes to my first question , I 'll answer you , can I have ten thousand pounds ? |
12 | I suspect the answer to my first question is about numbers of jobs , by virtue of what you 've just said as long as a piece of string . |
13 | A dream I had not so long ago took me back to my first year in Vienna . |
14 | Armed with your support I look forward to my first year in that position , to sorting the Party 's problems . |
15 | It must relate to my first sight of my mother 's genitals — but not the last — for we lived in just one room . |
16 | I was only a little girl when I went to my first funeral . |
17 | ‘ I had contact with hundreds of people prior to my first face to face meeting with the kidnappers in Beirut , ’ Waite said in a statement yesterday . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | I paid the woman next door a quid to look after Lee and Max , bought a roller and tray and a paste brush — another quid — borrowed a paste board , and at 8 a.m. skipped off to my first commission . |
20 | Later that day we went back to my first house . |
21 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
22 | ‘ I remember going to my first meeting , ’ he recalls . |
23 | I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest — clumsily . |
24 | ‘ I was just going on 14 and I went to my first gig the Stray Cats . |
25 | Even today I still look forward to my first glimpse of it , after a huge bend in the road , through the gate in its enclosing wall . |
26 | I first knew it unmistakably when Herr Sussmeyer replied to my first letter , saying he had this quest for pubic hairs because he loved and respected women so much . |
27 | ‘ Ah 'm sure lookin' forward to my first pisco sour . ’ |