Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] on the 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 ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 He also took a stick out of the packet of Edinburgh rock he had bought on the first day .
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