Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the first day [prep] " in BNC.

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1 instead the Church preferred to use the Annunciation for the first day of the year , and this led to the adoption of 25 March , nine months before Christmas , although this choice was by no means universal .
2 Mounds of legal documents were brought to the Court House in Whitminster for the first day of the case between B & Q and Gloucester City Council .
3 Robert Mantack from Swindon arrived at Bristol Crown Court for the first day of his trial .
4 24 year old Shaun Gooch and 22 year old Anthony Gallagher , both from Swindon arrived at Gloucester Crown Court this morning for the first day of their trial .
5 Twenty years ago she was Lucy and Frieda 's age , putting on school uniform for the first day of the winter term , long serge skirt suddenly covering the scratched knees used to shorts , thick woolly stockings sliding strangely up the white smooth skin , nylon suspender belt holding in her stomach making her think of the opening under the dark bush below .
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