Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] on the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After supper on the first night we sat round the table in anticipation of the promised induction talk . |
| 2 | He gambolled over the four fences on the run towards the turn for home on the first circuit , and made towards the stands with a commanding lead . |
| 3 | really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders . |
| 4 | In this case a twelve-month sentence for unlawful wounding terminated the contract of employment on the first day of imprisonment . |
| 5 | The 31-year-old paceman produced a show of petulance on the first day of the County Championship match against Lancashire at Old Trafford . |
| 6 | " Then there 's the smear of what looks like vomit on the first basin in the men 's washroom . |
| 7 | Languages in this category include French , with stress on the last syllable of a word ( or phrase ) ; Polish , with stress on the penultimate ( next to the last ) syllable ; and Finnish , with stress on the first syllable . |
| 8 | All four hit fine drives under pressure on the first play-off hole . |
| 9 | So the results for the sales strategy are remarkably similar to the results for the output strategy : the subjects were not taking the time ( the period ) into account on the first repetition — as they should have been — but there were on the second repetition . |
| 10 | Facilities include a breakfast/dining room and a lounge area with TV on the first floor . |
| 11 | The DJs heard six songs and were asked for advice on the first single . |
| 12 | The point is that Humpage was brought on to bowl before lunch on the first morning of the match , and one wonders whether a selected wicketkeeper has ever been introduced into the attack to early a stage of a first-class match , especially since so far as I am aware Warwickshire suffered no injuries that morning . |
| 13 | The ideal inpatient stay was two admissions of three and two days ; no patient achieved this ideal , with the patient nearest spending four days in hospital on the first occasion , the delay in discharge being due to severe pain . |
| 14 | The Indian presence in far flung outposts of the Empire , for example , from Malaysia to East Africa , can only be understood in this context , and it is important to note that a tradition of emigration from Jamaica had already developed in the nineteenth century , with 2,000 Jamaicans migrating to build railways in Panama , followed by well over 80,000 who went to work on the first attempt at constructing the Panama Canal in the 1880s . |
| 15 | To record this guide-track , you set the tape to a start-mark and the tape recorder to record-pause ; the video tape is set on play-pause on the first frame of picture . |
| 16 | It 's ten minutes to showtime on the first day of Lollapalooza , and the floorboards in the backstage enclosure vibrate with the approach of the humungous Boo Yaa Tribe . |
| 17 | Cue a sound tape by recording a guide-track to indicate where each section of the music should start and end : set the tape to a start-mark ; set tape recorder to record-pause ; set the video tape to play-pause on the first frame of picture ; release both machines together calling out music cues into a microphone connected to the tape recorder while you watch the pictures on screen . |
| 18 | When his mother took him to school on the first day , he decided from then onwards he could make his own way to school and did n't hesitate in telling his mother just that . |
| 19 | After fasting for four hours , at midday on the first day , the patients received three sachets each containing 3.6 g psyllium or three sachets of placebo dissolved in 100 ml water . |
| 20 | Furthermore , the individuals gradually become knowledgeable over the entire spectrum of aviation to the extent that when they are confronted with something new and different , like hot air balloons or hang gliders , or , at the other end of the scale , vectored thrust and variable geometry ( swing-wing ) aircraft , they are not thrown off balance on the first encounter with something different . |
| 21 | We acted as Dealer on the first Sterling Commercial Paper programme with a syndicated bank guarantee . |