Sentence examples for i first said from inspiring English sources

When my husband and I first said we loved each other, in our student flat in Cambridge.

"When I first said to people 'I'm writing adventure' they said 'don't say that – adventure doesn't sell'.

In 2005, I first said at a public meeting in my village (Tukvar) that we want Gorkhaland and not the Sixth Schedule status that Subhash Ghisingh was rooting for.

Martin Amis, son of Kingsley, once remarked wittily that he had been name-dropping "ever since I first said, 'Dad.' " The Amis family, which counted Philip Larkin and Anthony Burgess among its regular guests, had nothing on the Styrons.

When my 9-year-old son picked up Guy Delisle's graphic novel "Jerusalem" at Brooklyn's Bergen Street Comics, I first said no. Wouldn't it be too disturbingly realistic, showcasing the region's turmoil and bloodshed?

When I first said I was going to Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1996, reactions were mostly of two kinds: horror – "The former Belgian Congo?

"He was the guest I wanted first," said Ferguson.

Regarding this current manuscript I must first say that I am in complete agreement with all the comments made by Eugene Koonin.

I love being first," said Plushenko.

The first said I was dead; the second said I was dying; and the third said I was about to die".

I first saw this saying in a paper by Tom Reilly, an Australian microbiologist.