Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] on the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah you only need to write their details on the first page in which they appear . |
| 2 | ‘ Between 150 and 200 prospective customers visited our stand on the first morning , ’ says Patrick Fitz-Gibbon , public affairs manager with Unipart , who organized the event . |
| 3 | Did you really expect to find your mother on the first day ? |
| 4 | in the top flat , they , they were rehoused in a flat in a block of mansion flats and when I came out of the army this was the accommodation I found available , er for me and I objected strongly and after a great deal of fuss erm the Islington Borough Council 's Housing Department found us rooms on the first floor in a Victoria Victorian villa in Penventon Gardens , which erm , were comfortable |
| 5 | In the meantime , feast your diaries on the first instalment . |
| 6 | Over the past 30 years investors in American and British IPOs who sold their shares on the first trading day earned returns of 15% and 12% respectively . |
| 7 | " Alone , " she told my mother on the first night . |
| 8 | With every nerve on edge and my heart pumping I put my foot on the first stair . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't want to see him , ’ Anna said , remembering her inoculation on the first day back , and how it had hurt . |
| 10 | If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now . |
| 11 | This is likely to be your most fertile day , as it is not unusual to detect your surge on the first day of testing . |
| 12 | The monitors , who meet to discuss their audits on the first Friday of every month , are : . |
| 13 | Ninety-six per cent of the voters followed his lead on the first question and two-thirds on the second . |
| 14 | The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) in Vienna is close to finishing its report on the first systematic study of the Chernobyl region by outsiders . |
| 15 | MANY churches were focusing their prayers on the first Sunday of December to guide them in their response to AIDS . |
| 16 | Guy Nicot , the Louvre ( and Elysée Palace ) architect currently supervising work on the Museum 's Cour Napoléon will leave his offices on the first floor of the west side of the Cour Lefuel ( once the apartments of Napoléon III 's Master of the Horse ) to make way for Dutch and Flemish sculptures ; German pieces will be housed underneath on the ground floor . |
| 17 | The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals in July 1990 had overturned his conviction on the first charge and sent the other two convictions back to US District Court judge Gerhard A. Gesell , to determine whether testimony from any of the 67 witnesses at the original trial had been influenced — directly or indirectly — by information which North gave Congress under grant of limited immunity during four days of nationally televised interrogation in June 1987 [ see p. 37605 ] . |
| 18 | If Sid put £100 ( $175 ) into each of the big privatisations and sold his shares on the first day of trading — as many such investors did — he would ( before expenses ) have got back an extra 41% . |
| 19 | Seb backed up his threat with a two-pronged pitchfork , jabbing it to within inches of Boz 's face as the gipsy placed his foot on the first rung . |
| 20 | He pushed open the door and , as he put his foot on the first step , experienced a revelation comparable to that undergone by Newton in the orchard or Archimedes in his bath . |
| 21 | He put his foot on the first step and paused , listening . ’ |
| 22 | Limit your sunbathing on the first day of the holiday . |
| 23 | When newly awakened from lively dreams , we are so near them , still agitated by them , still in their sphere — give us one syllable , one feature , one hint , and we should repossess the whole ; hours of this strange entertainment would come trooping back to us ; but we can not get our hand on the first link or fibre , and the whole is lost . |
| 24 | And do your exams on the first of our work in June . |
| 25 | Wycliffe left his car on the first car park he came to and walked . |
| 26 | Abel had his workshop on the first and second floors of the tall house and made intricate jewellery which he sold to a shop in Hatton Garden . |
| 27 | Below : John Barry grits his teeth on the first pitch of Thin Wall Special ( E1 ) . |
| 28 | As she set her foot on the first one she turned involuntarily and gave one last look at the parade — and started uncomfortably at what she saw . |
| 29 | We were getting paid our pensions on the first week of Nove November . |