Example sentences of "the first day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , on the first day of that summer term , I remember sitting alone in the cafeteria , slowly drinking my cup of coffee , and listening as all around me people welcomed each other back from their holidays . |
| 2 | This is easier if you 've kept a note of the date of the first day of your last period . |
| 3 | D J Mike Read and guest Cliff Richard will be on hand to capture the excitement of the first day and hopefully set the mood for a week of high quality tennis — and not a little fun ! |
| 4 | International Day — the first day that local schools begin their support of their adopted nation in the ‘ Welcome to the World ’ project . |
| 5 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 6 | The admission by Hammersmith and Fulham was disclosed on the first day of a case brought by Anthony Hazell , the local district auditor . |
| 7 | It was held , appropriately , on the first day of Michaelmas when , in medieval times , pigs were traditionally turned out into the woods to fatten up on acorns . |
| 8 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 9 | It was the first day of the new university year . |
| 10 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 11 | As a panicked organiser confided on the first day : ‘ There is complete chaos here , everyone is allowed to speak . ’ |
| 12 | Lancia still ended the first day in the lead , but Alessandro Fiorio 's Integrale was one of the old-style standard versions that have dominated the world championship for the past two years . |
| 13 | Brussels : Renewed confidence on the first day of the new forward account enabled shares to close firmer in heavy trading . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , Wesker was struck by another ( albeit minor ) disaster : Teomi was not able to attend the first day of rehearsals because Wesker had forgotten , when writing his schedule , that it was also Yom Kippur . |
| 15 | But in world judo at present , there is a group of young fighters all jockeying for the top positions — and in the first day of the World Championships here yesterday , they began to sort themselves out . |
| 16 | And the chairman also has to make a big speech on the first day . |
| 17 | Dealers emerged from the first day 's sale of the Blackmer library gasping at the high prices . |
| 18 | He managed only 1.91 metres ( his best is 2.14 ) , went through the motions in the final event of the first day , and quit . |
| 19 | If you decided on the first day of the PIW you could not pay the SSP or that you had to stop paying SSP during the PIW , you employee can not get SSP now . |
| 20 | Check whether any of the reasons for not paying SSP apply on the first day of the PIW . |
| 21 | SSP is not payable if on the first day of the PIW your employee : |
| 22 | If any of the above apply on the first day of the PIW , do not pay SSP . |
| 23 | The uppers , made of one piece calf leather with leather bellows , well padded tongue and collar , provided the comfort I remembered from the first day . |
| 24 | The first day there I noticed all these queens waltzing in and out . |
| 25 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 26 | Swinton left for Chicago , where he held talks with Adolf Berle on the first day of the conference . |
| 27 | Each of these clear days of scattered apple and white pear tree blossom moved inexorably towards the first day when they set out without books and came home in the evening showing the pink or blue papers they had tested themselves against in the examination hall . |
| 28 | On the first day Odd-Knut gave me a tobacco tin of worms and told me to keep them warm , and they have travelled the Arctic inside my second layer of clothing ever since , even sharing my sleeping bag at night-time . |
| 29 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 30 | During a slow lap on Friday , the first day of practice , Mansell had gone off line slightly and it was enough to have the Williams slide into a tyre barrier and snap off the right-hand suspension . |