Example sentences of "[be] on the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CO 's office where he was learning the job of Assistant Adjutant happened to be on the first floor of an empty house in Cadogan Gardens . |
| 2 | Holbrecht advocated a mix of social classes in the same building ; his outline was for a single apartment to be on the first floor of a typical building ; for two apartments each on the Erdstock , the second storey and the third storey , and for three apartments on the fourth floor , as well as smaller flats on the ground floor and in the courtyard . |
| 3 | If you are on the first field of an option and you press BACKSPACE , an error message is reported at the foot of the page . |
| 4 | We were there , too , as we have been on the first weekend of June in each of the past four years ; the roistering boys whose fever for drink and song has been jaded , ever so slightly , by contemplation of middle age and the fingering of indigestion tablets . |
| 5 | ( This is not the present ladies ' room but is believed to have been on the first floor of the main clubhouse where it was known to be in the 1940 's at least ) . |
| 6 | While Horsley had been cavorting about at Oxford , he had been on the first rung of an entirely different social ladder , as a solicitor 's clerk . |
| 7 | Ltd were on the first floor of a substantial building , near Allhallows Church . |
| 8 | The first two rounds were on the first day of the Championships , and I cruised them comfortably . |
| 9 | In the examples given , which seem to be the most common , the primary stress is on the first syllable of the suffix . |
| 10 | She , like so many of our young Romany people , is on the first step of the ladder to a wider , less restrictive world . |
| 11 | Gordon was on the first ascent of Diagonal with Birtwistle , and also climbed with Menlove Edwards . |
| 12 | It was on the first floor of a late Victorian house in a road which was not too far from Craven Cottage . |
| 13 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 14 | His room was on the first floor of the college , looking down into a narrow street that ran beside it . |
| 15 | My first dream I can ever remember was on the first day of exams . |
| 16 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 17 | But as soon as his foot was on the first step of the stairs , Charles heard the fatal summons over the loudspeaker . |