Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] on [pos pn] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old retainer who had received them on their first visit tried to help but Cranston pushed him gently away , saying it was a holiday and besides he was here at Sir Richard 's request to pursue his inquiries privately . |
| 2 | ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart . |
| 3 | As show jumper and trainer John Bunyan told me on our first lesson ( see next month 's diary ) : ‘ You have to work out the difference between ‘ Ca n't ’ and ‘ Wo n't ’ . |
| 4 | I had missed it on its first appearance , around 1974 , but considering the excellent standards of Baudo 's other Honegger recordings for the same label , it would be a mistake to overlook it entirely . |
| 5 | He became aware of the excessive beating of his heart , and remembered the attendant 's advice not to overdo it on his first visit . |
| 6 | I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh . |
| 7 | I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 . |
| 8 | After settling the children into their hotel , the team took them on their first visit — to Disney 's Magic Kingdom , a giant playground of spectacular rides . |
| 9 | She had meant to walk down to the sea today to greet it on her first Christmas here , her own sea , her own stretch of wild grey winter water . |
| 10 | It was the latter who inspired me on my first day at the tech . |
| 11 | Lady Diana stayed on and accompanied me on my first walk with the pram out of the garden . |
| 12 | The amniocentesis test had proved everything was normal and she had done her best to push into the background the treacherous thoughts about it which had assailed her on her first visit to the gynaecologist . |