Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [noun sg] on the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Between 150 and 200 prospective customers visited our stand on the first morning , ’ says Patrick Fitz-Gibbon , public affairs manager with Unipart , who organized the event . |
| 2 | " Alone , " she told my mother on the first night . |
| 3 | Ninety-six per cent of the voters followed his lead on the first question and two-thirds on the second . |
| 4 | He pushed open the door and , as he put his foot on the first step , experienced a revelation comparable to that undergone by Newton in the orchard or Archimedes in his bath . |
| 5 | He put his foot on the first step and paused , listening . ’ |
| 6 | Wycliffe left his car on the first car park he came to and walked . |
| 7 | Abel had his workshop on the first and second floors of the tall house and made intricate jewellery which he sold to a shop in Hatton Garden . |
| 8 | As she set her foot on the first one she turned involuntarily and gave one last look at the parade — and started uncomfortably at what she saw . |