1.   I was invited to join in but always found excuses not to do so, saying that I had early afternoon lessons.

2.   Years later, she acknowledged the debt she owed him for those early lessons in self-determination.

3.   Along the way, Bush got an early lesson in the boundaries of American power.

4.   But sometimes those early lessons in dealing with others result in malfunctioning communication skills, or lay the groundwork for emotional traps that get triggered by people at work.

5.   But when practicing an early lesson in feigning expressions that range from disdain to rapture, she barely moves her features.

6.   During an early skydiving lesson Branson had to be rescued by his instructor, James Bond-style, in midair after he accidentally unhooked his parachute.

7.   Early lessons from my parents helped me make the most of this chance.

8.   Every early basketball memory, every early lesson in teamwork came from watching televised Celtics games in his Fall River home.

9.   For me, it was an early lesson in a complex but pervasive problem in psychiatry.

10.   He got an early lesson in how a government functionary with gumption can change things.