Example sentences of "[prep] the first time on a " in BNC.
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1 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
2 | The formative period from 1850 to 1914 witnessed the birth of a clearly identifiable movement , with labour organising for the first time on a massive scale . |
3 | Not for the first time on a trip , the naturalist , writer and traveller Redmond O'Hanlon fantasized about waking between crisp , dry sheets . |
4 | People who hear themselves for the first time on a tape-recorder often find it hard to believe that the stranger talking is actually them . |
5 | One day , in Times Square , Dustin looked up and saw his face for the first time on a billboard . |
6 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
7 | Last week at the Sybase User Conference , Microsoft showed off a prototype 32-bit version of SQL Server designed to exploit NT 's multiprocessing architecture for the first time on a NCR 486 MP machine . |
8 | I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May . |