Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Gooch became the only player to score a fifty in the match and put on 95 for the first wicket with Boycott , but when the fifth wicket fell just before tea they were only 72 ahead and could still have lost . |
2 | 474 set England a stiff target but the pitch was less malicious than the earlier ones and Gooch and Slack put on 127 for the first wicket . |
3 | When Haynes and Best put on 113 for the first wicket it all became academic , the main interest being whether Best would get his hundred . |
4 | After Greenidge and Haynes had put on 96 for the first wicket , Fraser had Greenidge lbw ; immediately after the interval Haynes hit Malcolm 's second ball for four , only for the next ball to leap up at him and give Lamb an easy catch . |
5 | He and Washbrook once put on 350 for the first wicket against Sussex . |