Example sentences of "and [pos pn] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of his designs that we now possess was built , and my first thought was of regret that this should be so , but on reflection I knew that it was right . |
| 2 | — And my first choice — Rope Jumping : Theory And Technique ( University of Nevada ) |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I do n't know what happened to the front entrance , but there was a basement underneath there and my first wife was dancing in Harvey Martin 's dance hall underneath , her pal and herself she , they 'd gone to this dance it was a dancing lesson on a Saturday night it was famous in those days Harvey Martin 's dance class er yes I |
| 5 | A pen , pencil-cases , a wallet with a pound note inside , and my first watch , a pocket Ingersoll ( this cost in today 's money , 12 pence ) . |
| 6 | Nancy did n't appear through the mist , and my first sight of her was nothing like so romantic . |
| 7 | Neither father nor mother had ever breathed a word , and my first knowledge was thrust upon me — by happening to read quite unwittingly a pamphlet — it was by Stead , exposing and giving such ghastly details of prostitution … |
| 8 | The job began to take over my life , and my first marriage ended in divorce . |
| 9 | I remember the sinking feeling still : 1964 , having just moved up to Leeds and my first day at Almscliff — then , and probably still , the best swather of tall poppies in the land . |
| 10 | As I 've mentioned/bragged/gloated previously I know two of the leeds youth team who won the Youth FA Cup final against the scum earlier this year at ellamd rd ( And my first venture into Mt . |
| 11 | I tried opium , and my first experience with anything really hard , using it intravenously , was when I used Omnopon which was from a lifeboat , y'know , from the life-saving equipment on a lifeboat . |
| 12 | Now I 'm , I 'm from Worksop and my first job was at Newark and my contacts now gone . |
| 13 | ‘ I had just finished my university course , and my first job was in the south of France , very close to that little village where your house is . ’ |
| 14 | it 's a very sad day for me with my last test flight , I started here in nineteen eighty three and my first job was to clean up the station after the air show |
| 15 | Currently there is a bewildering variety of software available and my first task will be to suggest a simple classification . |
| 16 | By now the day was hot and bright and my first need was for lunch and a glass of wine . |
| 17 | He was sitting in his chair , smoking a pipe , and my first reaction was not favourable . |
| 18 | I became very interested in the trade union movement and my first appointment was as a collector in collecting the union dues and taking them up to the union office . |
| 19 | My family were too poor ever to have a holiday together , and my first glimpse of the sea was on a choir outing shortly after my joining . |
| 20 | But then the crag was undercut , and my first move was a leftwards traverse above a 20 foot drop . |
| 21 | And my first meeting is at eight thirty . ’ |
| 22 | The telephone calls can wait and my first meeting is not until lunchtime . ’ |
| 23 | H375 DRV arrived on a cold , wet night , and my first impression was of the prodigious efficacy of the three-speed heater/demister . |
| 24 | Ann opened the door of the large student house in South London where she lives , wearing a cotton print dress in deep colours , and my first impression was of someone fair and small and limping . |
| 25 | Off I went to resume normal existence and my first priority , since it was now nearly nine o'clock and I was due to meet Jack Mason at a quarter to ten , was breakfast . |
| 26 | ‘ We must ensure that the support materials we prepare for teachers are as closely tied in with the demands of the curriculum as possible , especially with the new 5 – 14 guidelines , and my first priority has been to talk to Educational Advisers throughout Scotland . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd turn the rifles on the officers and my first shot would be aimed at that bastard Trentham . ’ |
| 28 | I do want you to know how clearly I understand my deep obligation to you for giving me my first insight into the real problem we were facing and my first understanding of the nature of clinical research ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm back at Spurs , I 'm captain , and my first game is against my former club . ’ |
| 30 | It was my first taste of big-time athletics , and my first visit to Gateshead . |