Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] on the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moment I heard there were rumours that the PLO is willing to be more moderate , that 's when I went on the first plane and went to Tunis . |
| 2 | I can remember what I did on the first day of my holiday last year |
| 3 | ‘ It 's very important for me to have the same people around me as I did on the first album … it 's a community thing , it means I can keep the same vibe as I had before , ’ he says . |
| 4 | ‘ When I stood on the first tee in the morning I could hardly see the fairway , ’ said the Atherstone club-mate and friend of Paul Broadhurst , the Ryder Cup player . |
| 5 | Outside the marched in the aborigines had their fire of gum tree branches to purify the atmosphere very much like the flames of fire which appeared on the first whit Sunday . |
| 6 | Some pupils who failed on the first occasion might subsequently succeed because of increasing insight into a concept or because a skill has been practised . |
| 7 | If you decided on the first day of the PIW you could not pay the SSP or that you had to stop paying SSP during the PIW , you employee can not get SSP now . |
| 8 | So much that she fell on the first excuse to put some distance between them . |
| 9 | Yes , Chair , it 's er , remember at the , the last meeting we touched on the first part of the report , the worry about the issue of closing shops , and rural post offices and garages , and there 's considerable interest from all members er , as to what could be done . |
| 10 | The cliffs near our cottage , we discovered on the first day of that holiday , were wild and forbidding : of ancient , dark volcanic rock . |
| 11 | We landed on the first shelf . |
| 12 | Everybody missed on the first attempt except Lambert , Church and Kimberly . |
| 13 | ‘ He hopped on the first plane back to Germany . ’ |
| 14 | He drew on the first cigarette for eight years , nearly choked , and wheezed : ‘ First today , anyway . |
| 15 | It worked on the first day of application . |
| 16 | He took the Canal Turn as fluently as he had on the first circuit , then swept towards Valentine 's Brook . |
| 17 | " Why are they doing all this work so early in the morning ? " she asked Captain Duro when he appeared on deck looking as spruce and polished as he had on the first day she met him . |
| 18 | As he stood on the first tee at New Orleans last week , he noticed a boy in a wheelchair . |
| 19 | I hope I do n't add to the confusion of the Borrowdale guidebook editions when I point out that their detailed account of what occurred on the first ascent of Prodigal Sons is in fact what happened on a totally different route named Déj ‘ a Vu . |