Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] on the first " in BNC.
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1 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
2 | There 's actually another complaint this morning I 've had on the first floor of G P House . |
3 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
4 | She thought with a rush of gratitude of the letter she had had from Gay , in answer to the one she had written on the first night of the holidays . |
5 | Vargas Llosa , who had led on the first round on April 8 [ see p. 37371 ] , now won only 2,713,442 ( 33.92 per cent ) . |
6 | The choreographer was Onna White , who had worked on the first musical version of a Charles Dickens book , Oliver ! , the 1968 British film starring Ron Moody and Oliver Reed — for which she won a special Oscar — and had staged Half a Sixpence in New York , featuring Tommy Steele . |
7 | Here we have stumbled on the first of many . |
8 | Every evening he would come down wearing the black cashmere jacket he had worn on the first night , and in a mood that was somehow expectant . |
9 | The little boy was wearing the same neat grey flannels that he had worn on the first day Robert had seen him , and , when the sun struck his face , he smiled up at it as if in gratitude . |
10 | He also took a stick out of the packet of Edinburgh rock he had bought on the first day . |