私の最初の務めは資格のない志願者をふるいにかけることだった。の英語

My first task was to screen out unqualified applicants.

My first impression was that he was a tactful politician.

his first move was to hire a lawyer

During my first month in my new job, I was completely at sea.

his first job was a crash course in survival and in learning how to get along with people

At first he had difficulty telling one student from another.

For the first six months, all the newcomers had to collect balls for the other players.

He will be the first former astronaut to work in such a position.

The thing that I wanted to play at first was not this instrument.

I got a job offer, but it didn't interest me.

my duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests

I had to kiss off my career.

The new employee glossed over his first mistake.

Bush appointed Edward J. Derwinski as the first Secretary of Veterans Affairs

It would not be my first choice.

This instrument isn't what I wanted to play at first.

I was unable to come owing to an engagement that I could not manage to break off.

He was a writer who had never lived up to the promise of his first novel.

I was to have gone abroad, but I had no chance to carry my design into execution after all.

the diplomats' first concern was to reduce international tensions

The lecture was too difficult for me to follow.

He was the first chemist who denied the existence of phlogiston.

Katsura Beicho is the first rakugo storyteller to become a Person of Cultural Merit.

That was his first tournament as a yokozuna and his poor performance was criticized by the Yokozuna Deliberation Council.

I was merely being used.

The first dog that I owned died from sickness.

It never occurred to me that he was the right man in the right place.

The salary I got for the first time was mere chicken feed.

In his first at-bat, the count reached three balls and no strikes with one out.

This should all be put down [ascribed] to me as chief of the department..