Example sentences of "was [pron] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was my first brush with fascism . |
| 2 | She was my first love , my first experience of that wonderful thing called sex . |
| 3 | ‘ It was my first love . ’ |
| 4 | He was my first love , and that will always be very special . |
| 5 | Elizabeth Taylor was my first love . |
| 6 | The sea was my first love , but now the hills have an equal claim to my affection . |
| 7 | JOHN MILES Singer/songwriter from Jarrow whose biggest hit was Music ( ’ Music was my first love , etc' ) in 1976 . |
| 8 | They were quite good days because I knew absolutely nothing about the music business , being at school , and he was my first boy friend who was n't upper class . |
| 9 | This tournament was my first outing of the year . |
| 10 | This was my first sea voyage of any length and I looked forward with mixed feelings to the life on board ship , alone and with a crowd of passengers unknown to me . |
| 11 | This was my first opportunity to find out what progress you ‘ d made . ’ |
| 12 | At 13 , I was sent to Dovercourt camp , which I remember with affection because it was my first home after leaving my family in Germany . |
| 13 | In your letter dated Thu , 9 Dec 93 18:40:05 MET , you wrote : T was my first home game , Leeds vs Bradford one Wednesday evening , I can still remember the electric atmosphere at the ground . |
| 14 | Butchers and er then there was the butchers and that was on the corner of and er and and then cross over there towards Street you 've got the stores , then you come the , the er drapers , then er Tommy the butcher who was my first wife 's uncle and then you come to a shop which was owned by one or two people , which was a sort of er general store and then my mother-in-law 's shop a cook 's which was |
| 15 | To myself it 's a matter of well my first reaction was to ask the C I D if they knew the situation between o of , that was my first response actually to when the phone call came in , but I knew very little about . |
| 16 | This was my first poem ever written and it was for a daffodil tea in our church . |
| 17 | I left after a year and went to Cambridge in order to read Philosophy and Art History , which was my first degree . |
| 18 | For me the high point of the week at Sunningdale was my first chance to commentate for the BBC . |
| 19 | This was my first stop on a circular walk round the peninsula 's exposed western extremity . |
| 20 | Obviously Stevie Ray Vaughan , the Thunderbirds and Robert Cray are the people who really got exposed and people started hearing the blues that way , although the Paul Butterfield Blues Band was my first exposure . |
| 21 | It was my first machine , bought in 1952 after the birth of my second child . |
| 22 | I think it was my first hol it was my first holiday abroad |
| 23 | I had come to Zurich from an ‘ off ’ period — it was my first race since the Commonwealth , a gap of about three weeks . |
| 24 | ‘ It was my first race for three weeks and it was very hot out there , so I 'm very happy with that . ’ |
| 25 | That was my first experience with him , basically . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ That was my first experience of Genesis and I loved it ! |
| 27 | It was my first experience of flying and I soon came to like the journeys , usually from Aberdeen to Norwich for me , in the low flying Fokker Friendships of Air Anglia , later to become Air UK . |
| 28 | It was my first experience of being totally responsible for trying to get funds , selling people the idea and overseeing the building . " |
| 29 | That was my first experience of electronic monitoring . |
| 30 | As this was my first experience of squadron life , I quickly fell into its easy way , I was rather surprised to find I was already selected to play rugger for the squadron the following Sunday , and also went straight into the squadron tennis team . |