Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 2 | Was it when we got our first important jobs and started the expense-account lunch routine ? |
| 3 | We had to go ten years before we got our first increment of 2/6d . |
| 4 | We got our first publishing contract through that , but we were just signing as songwriters and we made the odd grotesque , poppy single ! |
| 5 | ‘ When we got our first serious analysis from the system in January 1992 , there was a minor panic at the amount of sick days reported , although it was not quite so bad when we analysed the figures further and found that one employee 's long-term sickness was affecting the averages . |
| 6 | We got our first wireless second-hand from John Thwaites at High Birk Hatt just before the outbreak of war in 1939 . |
| 7 | Do you know how much it was when we got our first house , just before we were married , it was n't two and a half times your salary , it was one and a half times our salary |
| 8 | We fixed our first session for the following week , and with a little planning there could be a further session before I went back to Bristol for my first day return since being a resident . |
| 9 | We built our first pond this summer . |
| 10 | In 1990 we found our first chiff-chaff on the count of March 11 and in 1989 , two early sand-martins and a solitary wheatear on March 12 . |
| 11 | As we prepared our first Report , to be published in November 1988 , we wanted our document to be lively , to avoid bureaucratic jargon , and to impart enthusiasm for literature , so we included references to specific authors . |
| 12 | Back at the beginning of November we instigated our first car boot sale , which we reluctantly accept was less than a 110 per cent success . |
| 13 | I have to remember we spent her first ten years together and hope that this will be what matters in the long run . |
| 14 | When we submitted our first Report on the primary stages we recommended that the three profile components , speaking and listening , reading and writing , should be weighted equally in the assessment process . |
| 15 | Even period furniture is available through this means — we furnished our first few places in ‘ early poverty ’ . |
| 16 | That year I think we lost our first 7 or 8 away games , and they went something like … |
| 17 | A Country Diary : NORTHUMBERLAND : When we saw our first immigrant golden-eye bobbing on the waters of Bolam Lake in the early months of each year , we always took it as the first sign of spring . |
| 18 | At Vigo we saw our first other light aircraft since leaving France . |
| 19 | We had come in search of raptors and we saw our first after only five minutes of walking . |
| 20 | Here we saw our first knife-fight which was clearly to the death — and Abu hustled us away from the milling throng which surrounded the two furious young combatants who rolled around like snakes in the dust attempting to stab each other with their " badiks " , the seaman 's dagger which few of the locals went without . |
| 21 | But the time flew , we won our first round , and very quickly we were recording again . |
| 22 | The company grew very quickly and in 1987 exports reached £7.8 million , more than 50 per cent of the total turnover and this was the year we won our first Queen 's Award for Export Achievement . |
| 23 | That 's how we did our first album which was on the Decca label called ‘ David Bowie' . |
| 24 | We did our first run-through for producers Michael Codron and David Sutton and there was , at last , a frisson of magic in the air . |
| 25 | On Thursday we gave our first lecture to a wider audience , and were surprised that more than a hundred turned up . |
| 26 | Once through the boulder field , a grassy sward high above picturesque Crummack Dale led steadily up to a broad plateau near Long Scar , from where we had our first view of the distant and brooding Ingleborough rising from a vast array of moor and limestone pavements , shimmering in the summer heat like a huge field of cotton grass . |
| 27 | We had our first main meal about 7 p.m. that evening . |
| 28 | We had our first moderate snow fall in mid-November last year , but so far it looks as though this winter will be milder than ever . |
| 29 | ‘ This year we had our first snow … on February 28 . ’ |
| 30 | And on that first night at home we had our first real sexual encounter , a rather one-sided one , with Dana quite passive . |