Example sentences of "[noun prp] on [art] first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean Baptiste Tribout on the first ascent of Just Do It ( 5.14c ) , Smith Rock . |
| 2 | Swinton left for Chicago , where he held talks with Adolf Berle on the first day of the conference . |
| 3 | They lost 3–0 to Coventry on the first day of the season . |
| 4 | He set off on 15 November on the first leg of a two month expedition thumbing his way across France , Algeria and Niger . |
| 5 | Jimmy Cook 's Test debut started disastrously , falling to Kapil Dev on the first ball of the match , and Jonty Rhodes ( 41 ) provided the only real support for Wessels . |
| 6 | And while we 're on the subject of outrage , those sexy boys from FABULOUS had a curious welcoming committee in Bournemouth on the first night of their current tour . |
| 7 | Colin Binks and Chris Craggs on the first ascent of Prominent Tory Reverse , E2 5c , 5c at Black Rocks ( photo his Chris Craggs ) . |
| 8 | There 's a littleness about it all : again it must not be seen as mere chance that we encounter Swift 's Lilliput on the first page of the novel . |
| 9 | The 10–10 draw against Hong Kong on the first day of the tournament upset their plans and despite their brave performance against eventual winners Namibia — at one point Zimbabwe were leading 10–0 — they went back home empty-handed . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're absolutely right , ’ said Ellen to Bernard on the first night of their wedded life . |
| 11 | Steve Haston and Andy Newton on the first ascent of The Prisoner ( E1/2 ) , Thunderbird Zawn , Gogarth ( photo Andy Newton ) . |
| 12 | McAdam left for Gibraltar in a Sunderland on the first leg of the long journey home . |
| 13 | They knew of course that she was ‘ clever ’ because they had heard her being questioned by Miss Honey on the first day of term . |
| 14 | Sinatra stormed off of the set of Carousel on the first day of shooting because it was to be shot in both the new CinemaScope 55 format and the standard ‘ flat ’ ratio , meaning everything had to be shot twice . |
| 15 | Four of 252 's Beaufighters had been destroyed on the ground during air raids while on Malta and the remaining four left on the same day for Gibraltar on the first leg of the flight back to England , each carrying three aboard instead of the usual crew of two . |
| 16 | Welcome to Cheltenham on the first day of the national hunt festival . |
| 17 | A BRITISH tourist shot dead in New Orleans on the first day of her holiday may have died because her boyfriend refused a mugger 's demand for money . |
| 18 | Then , the day after that leak , the Financial Times ran a story headed ‘ Accountancy firms fall short of standards ’ , based on a confidential report to the DTI on the first year of audit regulation ( p 9 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ They played Ards on the first day of the season and wiped the floor with us in a 3–0 win . |
| 20 | Benny took the bus to Dublin on the first day of term with more trepidation than she would ever have expected . |
| 21 | During his stay in Tanzania on the first leg of his seventh visit to Africa , the Pope called for more international aid to Africa and urged the international community " to inaugurate a new era of solidarity with Africa , based on justice and respect " . |