Example sentences of "[vb past] on first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Paysage d'Harfleur ’ , dated 1900 , reveals his debt to the Impressionists , and there are works he painted on first arriving in Paris , after ten years spent at Le Havre with Dufy and Friesz . |
| 2 | The cause — they did n't like the Blue Actinic tubes that came on first before the main lighting . |
| 3 | Susan Einzig can also recall the shock and anger she experienced on first seeing this picture . |
| 4 | ‘ Not as bad as it looked on first assessment . |
| 5 | In October 1339 the king sent Archbishop Stratford and the bishop of Durham back to England to expound his urgent needs and to extract the necessary funds , but the commons in parliament insisted on first consulting their constituencies . |
| 6 | I may indeed remind my friend of a thought I had by referring to it as the one I had on first wakening in Venice . |
| 7 | Two stimuli were used , the offset of a light and the presentation of a clicker , both of which tended on first presentation to evoke a suppression of ongoing behaviour . |