Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] on the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | With every nerve on edge and my heart pumping I put my foot on the first stair . |
| 2 | ‘ During one practice session , ’ writes Iain , ‘ I perpetrated the highest , latest and crudest tackle of my life on the first XI 's star player , a footballer of considerable skill . |
| 3 | I think it is , and therefore my judgment on the first demurrer is for the plaintiff . |
| 4 | " Alone , " she told my mother on the first night . |
| 5 | Greig was gracious in defeat , saying that their play on the first day deserved every credit . |
| 6 | And she wondered , as she headed for the hallway and the staircase that led up to her bedroom on the first floor , why the fact that that had not happened troubled her so . |
| 7 | The earliest of these postscripts to survive dates from the day after their departure on the first trip ( 12 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't want to see him , ’ Anna said , remembering her inoculation on the first day back , and how it had hurt . |
| 9 | Example 58 , from Handel 's Messiah , is an early but outstanding example of a powerful accompaniment based on three rhythmic elements : Two elements only are used at first , the ‘ chord ’ rhythm of the upbeat quaver chord at the end of each bar , with its resolution on the first beat of the next bar , and then the higher quaver and semiquaver rhythm . |
| 10 | Two weeks into the new season Rose Lipman , sitting in her office on the first floor , heard a cry pitched like the squeal of a snared rabbit coming from No.1 dressing-room . |
| 11 | He pushed open the door and , as he put his foot on the first step , experienced a revelation comparable to that undergone by Newton in the orchard or Archimedes in his bath . |
| 12 | He put his foot on the first step and paused , listening . ’ |
| 13 | His writing-room on the first floor contains an unprepossessing table and a sideboard , on which sit his word-processor and printer . |
| 14 | Wycliffe left his car on the first car park he came to and walked . |
| 15 | And it was an honour in both senses , for , like his counterpart on the first tee at the Dunluce course — qualifiers play both championship . |
| 16 | Ninety-six per cent of the voters followed his lead on the first question and two-thirds on the second . |
| 17 | Hope bowed more elegantly , muttered the line about being her servant but concentrated all his will on the first look direct . |
| 18 | The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals in July 1990 had overturned his conviction on the first charge and sent the other two convictions back to US District Court judge Gerhard A. Gesell , to determine whether testimony from any of the 67 witnesses at the original trial had been influenced — directly or indirectly — by information which North gave Congress under grant of limited immunity during four days of nationally televised interrogation in June 1987 [ see p. 37605 ] . |
| 19 | ‘ Between 150 and 200 prospective customers visited our stand on the first morning , ’ says Patrick Fitz-Gibbon , public affairs manager with Unipart , who organized the event . |
| 20 | Some of the rapids were as difficult as those that had been our undoing on the first day , but tackled with a bit of newly learned skill they were challenging and exhilarating rather than terrifying . |
| 21 | This is likely to be your most fertile day , as it is not unusual to detect your surge on the first day of testing . |
| 22 | When newly awakened from lively dreams , we are so near them , still agitated by them , still in their sphere — give us one syllable , one feature , one hint , and we should repossess the whole ; hours of this strange entertainment would come trooping back to us ; but we can not get our hand on the first link or fibre , and the whole is lost . |
| 23 | Did you really expect to find your mother on the first day ? |
| 24 | Limit your sunbathing on the first day of the holiday . |