Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Driving off on the first day was Sandy Lyle … as a winner of the British Open and American Masters he 's got to be one of the best judges of courses around |
| 2 | And this is a ph , like a photocopy , so what you 'll have is a nice printed version with Abbey Life blue , purely for you to get a feel of if you like , , and in this , we 're very quickly going to go through on the first sheet it will have activity and production and it will have your data there . |
| 3 | The working leg is thrust outwards on the first beat of a bar , heels click and stamp to accent the appropriate beats . |
| 4 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 5 | Only 25 of the forty aircraft entered were ready to start , and then several dropped out on the first leg due to mechanical problems . |
| 6 | We played late on the first day and I went round in the morning spotting the pin positions , trying to get a feel for the course so I could give the right information to Nick . |
| 7 | He was unseated by a young health promotions officer , Des Lowry , for the SDLP who gained first preference votes of 753 , just seven short of the quota , with sitting SDLP councillor Barry Doherty going through on the first count . |
| 8 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |
| 9 | I could double up on the first hit and get better odds . ’ |
| 10 | Mansell 's Newman-Haas team-mate Mario Andretti lines up on the first row after finishing second fastest qualifier with 223.414 mph . |
| 11 | He achieved little on the first day that he spent ‘ in the field ’ but on the second day he got into conversation with a group of men about a puppy that one was carrying . |
| 12 | Price powered home on the first count with 465 first preference votes , but Beth mustered only 11 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Coming up on the first platform , Admiral . |
| 15 | I would buy the parchment and arrange its transport down to the wharves and we concluded that , if we sold the wine brought back on the first voyage , we would make a profit . |
| 16 | they booked a six week holiday coming back on the first week on boxing day they 've got free car hire for the whole six weeks , not the insurance . |
| 17 | can we accept the recommendation as laid out on the first page of the |
| 18 | But he lost out on the First Division title because he was reluctant to strengthen the team . |
| 19 | It is time to recognise the last three phases — currently we have concentrated primarily on the first phase . |
| 20 | It was of the gate to Marie Claire 's villa : a clear bold drawing of the tall wrought-iron gate I had watched the girl go through on the first night I saw her . |
| 21 | ‘ Go home on the first flight out of here . |
| 22 | Two more previews to go , and then , at seven o'clock on the Thursday ( early so that the critics could get their copy in ) , the curtain would go up on the first night proper of The Hooded Owl . |
| 23 | Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home . |
| 24 | After four attempts to set our 45lb CQR in the thin sand-over-rock bottom , we gave up and put out a couple of 40lb Danforths , both of which bit hard on the first attempt . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the yacht did well on the first leg , finishing sixth . |
| 26 | We did n't , we did n't on the first request . |
| 27 | Andy Payton was denied with a good Bobby Mimms save as he burst through on the first occasion . |
| 28 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 29 | As the sun sinks , the young bats stream from the cave-mouth like smoke and set off on the first stage of their long journey south . |
| 30 | She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call . |