Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old .
2 The headstock is scarfed on behind the first fret ( as , in fact , were those on original Goodfellow basses ) .
3 This poem is about the death of one of Wilfred Owen 's fellow soldiers and this is focused on in the first stanza .
4 Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place .
5 They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place .
6 They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place .
7 The specifications of November 1939 became a reality just 43 years ago , when a CW pump evacuated model with sealing wax joints was switched on for the first time at the end of February 1940 , and operated successfully .
8 As a climax , you could arrange for some of the room lights to be switched off one by one before the tree-lights are switched on for the first time ( test them first ! ) .
9 For instance , a LAN operating system like NetWare or an appropriate environment like Windows for Workgroups can be largely pre-installed at the factory , with the remaining configuration being done via a fill-in-the-blanks , sign-on display when the thing 's switched on for the first time .
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