Example sentences of "of [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , I 've spoken to both of them first thing this morning about their trainers . |
| 2 | Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars . |
| 3 | Yorkshire is a cold place and I could remember the sensation almost of shock at the start of my first winter in Darrowby . |
| 4 | One of my first articles on machine knitting ( before MKM was even born ) was called ‘ Do n't blame the machine ; it 's the operator that 's at fault ’ . |
| 5 | Rita : You know , the old story , my first thoughts when I had her , well one of my first thoughts , was Oh , I 've got one of them kids that have silly haircuts , silly anoraks , spend all day on buses or all day in a home , weaving baskets , and that was my first thought … |
| 6 | I had ordered a consommé to begin and , by the end of my first course , she was clearly growing restless . |
| 7 | I did n't feel it was worthwhile to make an effort in England any more if this was to be the result of my first exposure in England since Robert Fraser collapsed . |
| 8 | Only three could read , and none could write , so at the end of my first day I felt quite depressed at the thought of the hard work ahead of me . |
| 9 | She came into Dorothy when I was on days there at the end of my first year . ’ |
| 10 | I spent the whole of my first year waiting to be tapped on the shoulder and told they 'd made a mistake . |
| 11 | In the summer of 1979 , at the end of my first year as a history student at Edinburgh University , I , having never been outside Britain , put a pack on my back and , with a great and enduring friend of similar enthusiasm , set out across Europe . |
| 12 | This sees the end of my first year as chairman . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 14 | I did not then know any literary people , and my first contact with Ivy ( at one remove ) was when Spencer Curtis-Brown ( later to become literary executor of Elizabeth Bowen and Somerset Maugham ) accepted the agency of my first novel late in 1937 . |
| 15 | ‘ You , the last remaining of my First Hierarchy of Hell . |
| 16 | ( How I thrilled at her use of my first name ! ) |
| 17 | When I first applied for part time training in September 1984 I was interviewed within two weeks of the birth of my first child . |
| 18 | The arrival of my first child , a daughter in 1989 , left me stunned and fascinated at society 's attitude towards birth . |
| 19 | Then he said : ‘ Actually , as I suppose you know , I got rid of my first wife on to Walter . ’ |
| 20 | If ever I get to Heaven ( which my friends tell me is unlikely ) one of my first requests will be to witness The perfect Draft . |
| 21 | Reminds me of my first branch chair , an ex-miner , who used to give me a lift home in his Jag . |
| 22 | Across the east coast bays of Auckland , the subject of my first New Zealand paintings , wide expanses of shimmering sea change colour beneath the sky , reflecting in turn crimson , purple , turquoise , emerald green and many shades of blue . |
| 23 | one of my first artists came through a very old friend called Richard Ogden who now manages paul McCartney . |
| 24 | and I remember doing my first , one of my first essays erm saying that I did n't think they were and all that they were erm was the fact that er er of and you said to me at the end that 's fine as far you 've argued it but I think you 'll change your views as you go on and I do n't know if I have . |
| 25 | One of my first contacts there was Frank Mah , who with his clever wife Mary , became close personal and family friends for many years . |
| 26 | So upon this , my third post-chapel ‘ chat ’ of my first Lent term , ‘ The boy who refused to be confirmed at a Woodard School ’ was launched , and the annual , ‘ All those who have n't been confirmed , stay behind after matins ’ was to go on for four more weary years . |
| 27 | One of my first memories as a young boy is of capturing a small bird and carrying it around the village inside my shirt pocket . |
| 28 | When I talk with children I used to coach , who are now working their way up the ladder of older and older age groups , I often think of my first experiences of cross-country running . |
| 29 | One of my first priorities is to get to know the IT community , firstly in the UK , but also in Europe and beyond . |
| 30 | And from this kernel notion I developed the plot of my first Inspector Ghote novel called — wait for it — The Perfect Murder . |