Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] on [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | I do n't know if it was the Irish temper in me or the Mexican , but I leapt on to the first marine I could reach . |
2 | Well , we really got on well together , and when the bell rang for the first round we went on to the first tee and an official is there to check out which clubs and what type of ball Butch is using . |
3 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
4 | As he walked on to the first tee he could n't get any proper words out at all , and so I was frightened to speak to him in case he thought I was teasing him . |
5 | The eminent Spaniard took 7 at the first hole of the Novo Sancti Petri course , of which he is the architect , and finished his first round ten shots behind Ireland 's Des Smyth who had not seen the course until he stepped on to the first tee . |
6 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |