Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] on the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Thompson , 42 , of Chelmsford , Essex , was murdered in October in a hotel car park on the first day of his holiday . |
| 2 | Who would dust now , clean the bath , hoover the carpets , now that Franca did n't mount higher than the drawing room on the first floor ? |
| 3 | 13 infants from each group underwent mechanical ventilation and showed significant differences in mean minimum arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratio on the first day ( regulated group 0.42 , random group 0.22 ) and in median duration of dependence on supplemental oxygen ( regulated group three days , random group 10 days ) . |
| 4 | Engine trouble on the first leg did n't manage to stop him coming in a creditable second . |
| 5 | Premier Li Peng delivered the government work report on the first day of the 16-day NPC session . |
| 6 | Here I am , Serafin , writing my shopping list on the first piece of paper that comes to hand and what I 'm writing down is two shirts for myself and one for my son . |
| 7 | An exhibition round : Arkle leads Mill House on the first circuit . |
| 8 | At lunch time on the first day , when we had lost the Foursomes 3-1 , I would n't say we were down but we were a bit subdued . |
| 9 | People are supposed to fill in the job description on the first page of the appraisal form but do n't , in a lot of cases . |
| 10 | But it 's confusing now because they put the news on and you can watch the evening news on the first feed at five o'clock in the afternoon now in San Francisco . |
| 11 | Madeleine was seated at the little writing-desk in the back corridor on the first floor . |
| 12 | Inside , the Richards lined many of the rooms with wainscots and the big bolection moulded panels of the time , mostly in the fashionable white wood , save for an oak room on the first floor . |
| 13 | I hope that you are now well enough to accept the attached invitation to a charity bail on the first evening of the York meeting . |
| 14 | Police search officers found the plastic explosive on the first floor of the shop after a telephone warning . |
| 15 | As we took our seats in the dining room on the first night , three babies and ten toddlers were having their evening meal with their parents . |
| 16 | For just under a £150,000 the tower offers a sitting room in the basement , a dining room on the first floor … one bedroom on the second floor then up the stairs again to the top bedroom … plus the view from the top … |
| 17 | I had long been in favour of CVRs but like many other people I was very dissatisfied with the quality , particularly the clarity of the only really useful part of the recording — that from the area microphone on the first channel . |
| 18 | The Gallery , a new permanent exhibition space on the first floor , opened in May with ‘ Model Architecture ’ , followed by a new series of exhibitions which included ‘ The World of Peter Rice , Engineer , 1992 Royal Gold Medallist ’ , to coincide with the presentation ceremony , and the work of Stanton Williams . |
| 19 | The effect of the restraint of trade doctrine on the first type of provision is to place limits on the type of information which may be made subject to the confidentiality provision . |
| 20 | The firm of Wilkes , Son and Cassey ceased trading in 1926 , the business and premises were purchased by The Salisbury Co-operative Society Limited who then only stocked larger items of ironmongery and added a furniture department on the first floor . |
| 21 | Now came yet another pub : The Crystal Fountain , which was quite a large three storeyed building , having a prominent bay window on the first floor . |
| 22 | Laptop workstations Brite-Lite ( from RDI Computer Corp of San Diego ) and Tadpole ( from Tadpole Technology of Cambridge , UK ) are being distributed by Daishin Electric Co of Tokyo , which also carries a desktop compatible DSSUN Station II based on a 40MHz Sparc , built by US company EOS Technology Inc and released in Japan in October last year ; the Tadpole machine just announced arrived at the Daishin booth on the first morning of the show ; its beautiful active matrix thin film transistor colour screen , 256 colours , external VGA and Super VGA , manufactured by Sharp Corp attracted attention . |
| 23 | I got clipped in an air strike on the first day . |
| 24 | Atlantis was to carry the Galileo space probe on the first leg of a six-year voyage to Jupiter this afternoon . |
| 25 | His slip catch on the first day — high to his left and almost beyond him — to dismiss Morris may not be bettered however long this season runs . |
| 26 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , the Government recently produced a progress report on the first year following the White Paper which shows , on a wide variety of fronts , considerable progress on environmental matters . |
| 27 | The bomb , which was left in the bargain book department on the first floor of the store , destroyed four units . |
| 28 | ON January 8 , 1875 , young James Springhall bade a tearful farewell to his parents and friends at Middlesbrough railway station on the first leg of an epic journey . |
| 29 | There were no significant differences between the groups in Apgar scores , admission temperature , or blood pressure stability on the first day . |
| 30 | Christina , Stephen and Celia huddled together in the master bedroom on the first floor , listening to the whirlwind hell-bent on destruction . |