Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] i " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The trouble with using a Hasselblad is that you black out after each shot , and in the first session I 'd cut off the arms in one or two shots , so I had to go back and re-shoot those .
2 When I first heard the first noise I thought what the bloody hell 's that and I turned the sound down .
3 It was the first winter I became ugly :
4 She was the first patient I saw with pseudochyluria .
5 The first day me and me friend got inside the doors we did n't know where to go .
6 The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks .
7 The first day I went into school wearing shalwar kameez a teacher said to me , ‘ Are you all right , Yasmin ?
8 Right from the first day I worked hard , no longer rested on my oars and as a result topped the class list .
9 Odd — I 've never dreamt about Cal , even though we 've been friends ever since we sat next to each other the first day I walked into that school .
10 On the first day I doubt whether you could feel them at all !
11 I remember the first day I met him .
12 On the first day I pass the acid Fitzgerald test .
13 I 'd never been in hospital before , and after the first day I felt well enough to notice things like the faint smell , which I thought was of death , but which was disinfectant , and to be mildly infuriated by hospital routine .
14 I only discovered the truth on the first day I was able to get up .
15 On the first day I made sur I stayed with that man all day .
16 Er the first day I did n't stay dinner .
17 That was the first day I realised that the war was really over .
18 I think I will look back on this day and think , I really had quite a distressing haircut did n't I , but also that this was the first day I was introduced to the humour of Vic and Bob .
19 The first day I could walk on my own I walked out .
20 I loved St Paul 's from the first day I walked through the gates , I suppose partly because no one told me off for working too hard .
21 no cos it can , apparently it can get like that , sort of all yelling and shouting and and the first day I was there I was s sitting there sitting and stuffing envelopes
22 He said the first day I went , I , I never sold anything except a couple of por a bit dubious , so he cooked half a dozen sausages , one bit of fish and did a few chips and said I bet we 'll be sitting here all day well every bugger come for fish and chips , had n't got none had they !
23 And , the first day I started right enough , they were awful kind , awful kind they were English people , I think .
24 I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience
25 It 's the first day I 've been with them and I thought I do n't know .
26 and then the first day I stop , I 've usually got flu , I 'm exhausted , I ca n't get out of bed , I feel rotten , but if I keep going for like , three weeks to a month , just on six hours , that 's fine , but the first day I stop I 'm like , in bed for a week ill usually .
27 and then the first day I stop , I 've usually got flu , I 'm exhausted , I ca n't get out of bed , I feel rotten , but if I keep going for like , three weeks to a month , just on six hours , that 's fine , but the first day I stop I 'm like , in bed for a week ill usually .
28 He was the first man I ever thought of partnering . ’
29 He was the first man I ever really looked at .
30 Doc Paisley was the first man I ever heard preach to me directly that I was sinner , that God loved me and that Jesus died for me …
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