Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] on [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Did you really expect to find your mother on the first day ? |
| 3 | " Alone , " she told my mother on the first night . |
| 4 | With every nerve on edge and my heart pumping I put my foot on the first stair . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't want to see him , ’ Anna said , remembering her inoculation on the first day back , and how it had hurt . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This is likely to be your most fertile day , as it is not unusual to detect your surge on the first day of testing . |
| 8 | Ninety-six per cent of the voters followed his lead on the first question and two-thirds on the second . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Quite what their role in British theatre was , was hard to define , but they knew everyone , everyone knew them and managements even came to regard their presence on a first night as an essential good luck charm . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He put his foot on the first step and paused , listening . ’ |
| 15 | Limit your sunbathing on the first day of the holiday . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Wycliffe left his car on the first car park he came to and walked . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |