Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] on [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 2 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |
| 3 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 4 | She thought with a rush of gratitude of the letter she had had from Gay , in answer to the one she had written on the first night of the holidays . |
| 5 | THOUSANDS of Namibians stood in long queues , stretching nearly a mile in some cases , as they waited to vote on the first day of Namibia 's five-day pre-independence election yesterday . |
| 6 | Every evening he would come down wearing the black cashmere jacket he had worn on the first night , and in a mood that was somehow expectant . |
| 7 | The little boy was wearing the same neat grey flannels that he had worn on the first day Robert had seen him , and , when the sun struck his face , he smiled up at it as if in gratitude . |
| 8 | He also took a stick out of the packet of Edinburgh rock he had bought on the first day . |
| 9 | He considered leaving on the first train in the morning . |