Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] on the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 2 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 3 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 4 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |
| 5 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 6 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 7 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |