Example sentences of "[pron] first real " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love all dogs but , to be fair , Bull Terriers are my first real love . |
| 2 | But the path took me back into darkness and I felt my first real twinge of panic . |
| 3 | We sailed from Edinburgh 's port of Leith , on the RMS St Ninian , and that journey was my first real adventure into the unknown . |
| 4 | Tomorrow , I would have my first real taste of desert . |
| 5 | It was my first real encounter with the ugly face of politics and some of the harsh realities of the world ‘ outside ’ . |
| 6 | My first real grown-up friend . |
| 7 | Watching the kestrel was a great experience , but life was still very frustrating for me because my mother understandably would n't let me wander very far afield , and I was n't going to see my first real live wild owl in Colchester Park ! |
| 8 | And when I daydream of its beauty I think , too , of the people I met on Koraloona , of Doc Reid , the eccentric , wayward medic who first taught me about the island ; Bill Robins , the captain of the Mantela when our ship was attacked , and who before that was to become my first real friend ; Jason Purvis , the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame ; Paula Reece , the beautiful American with cold , appraising eyes who so loved the island — and several of its free and happy inhabitants . |
| 9 | Being inside my first real cave — not a floodlight or a handlight in sight — was an incredible experience . |
| 10 | My first real task was to prepare for the next meeting of the Accidents Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal . |
| 11 | My first real exhibition was at the Hanover Gallery in 1955 and it was n't a great success commercially very little was sold so there was an interval of eight years before I had another . |
| 12 | My first real contact with the military was when I went on a familiarisation course to the Parachute Regiment depot at Aldershot when I was fourteen , and spent two days living in the mess , where I looked around the regiment , met serving officers and had some basic interviews with retired Colonels , who were in charge of selecting the future leaders of the toughest regiment in the Army outside of the Special Air Service . |
| 13 | I do n't suppose my first real piece for the paper was exactly world-shattering . |
| 14 | My first real fear came only when I caught sight of Tandri 's face watching his five strongest crewmen hanging miserably to the mainstay of our rotten mast . |
| 15 | Four years in the army , and this is my first real battle — with a sword in my hand . |
| 16 | It was my first real experience of handling a fast planing hull . |
| 17 | It was , I think , my first real understanding of what being spoiled meant , in more than one way , and it gave me a lifelong horror of over-dressing which , having just glanced through the photo-albums in search of an illustrative self-portrait , I seem to have conquered only too well . |
| 18 | This was my first real relationship with a grown man beyond the charmed circle of father , uncles , cousins , in which Alec and I had previously moved . |
| 19 | As he sat there , that 's when I got my first real look at John Russell . |
| 20 | Er , about two and a half years ago , erm , before that , er , just at college , so this is my first real job selection . |
| 21 | My first real friend was probably a boy called Adam . |
| 22 | Yeah but I , part of this comes from my first real , my only training at all and my first real experience in printing was working for this guy called Robert Dothard . |
| 23 | Yeah but I , part of this comes from my first real , my only training at all and my first real experience in printing was working for this guy called Robert Dothard . |
| 24 | Their first real taste of life on the road came in December when they stayed over after playing London and Brighton for four days . |
| 25 | While James was making preparations for his voyage the English rebels scored their first real success . |
| 26 | Meryl remembered her face from previous meetings , but this was their first real contact . |
| 27 | These were of immense consequence in giving elected Indian officials their first real taste of power , and in encouraging them to ask for more — much more , needless to say , than Curtis had either foreseen or intended . |
| 28 | And it 's at school that many gifted children — and their parents — encounter their first real obstacles . |
| 29 | Now that they had made their first move , their first real move , they would not give up until Jack Stone did what he was supposed to do : start talking . |
| 30 | She thought about them a lot , wondering how it was going for them on their first real day on active service ; the first day , she supposed , of the rest of their lives — of the duration , at least . |