Example sentences of "on the first leg " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 13 on the first leg stay with the boat , Smith said , and they will be joined by David Powys , who has been with the project from the beginning . |
| 2 | Atlantis was to carry the Galileo space probe on the first leg of a six-year voyage to Jupiter this afternoon . |
| 3 | Gryschenko had been known to be unhappy about embarking on the first leg of the race . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the yacht did well on the first leg , finishing sixth . |
| 5 | Prime Factor was protested by Britain 's Canon Express for an infraction of the basic right-of-way rule on the first leg of the fourth race . |
| 6 | On the first leg of the flight to Tehran , courtesy of one of the aircraft that also helped with contra resupply , North told Cave ‘ This is Democracy Airlines , ’ and laughed ; Cave had no notion what he meant . |
| 7 | Four of us were jammed in one compartment on the first leg of my journey — a train full of soldiers bound from the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator to Irkutsk , described as the Paris of Siberia , some 36 hours away . |
| 8 | Only 25 of the forty aircraft entered were ready to start , and then several dropped out on the first leg due to mechanical problems . |
| 9 | PUPILS at All Hallows High School , Macclesfield , played host to a group of 14–16-year old Spanish students on the first leg of a new Spanish/English Language exchange . |
| 10 | McAdam left for Gibraltar in a Sunderland on the first leg of the long journey home . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He set off on 15 November on the first leg of a two month expedition thumbing his way across France , Algeria and Niger . |
| 13 | A good position at the start line will put you in the front rank on the first leg |
| 14 | Curzon reported that as early as 1887 , with the line barely completed , 6,000 Central Asian pilgrims used the Trans-Caspian westwards on the first leg of their journey to Mecca . |
| 15 | Lasting impressions so far : the sun ( miraculously ) shining on the slopes of Dalwhinnie , far in the north , on the first leg of the journey ; stumbling across Drew from the World Cup holiday in a motorway café somewhere in England in the middle of the night ; breakfast and mineral water with Claire ( oh , it was good to see her ) in an Italian cafe near London Victoria ; people throwing up all over the joint on the Seacat crossing to Boulogne ( and me staggering about , legs way out of control , on the deck , getting soaked by the spray , saltwater taste in the mouth , and a rainbow arcing on top of the water behind the catamaran ) ; complaining English and American tourist ( ‘ It 's ridiculous that we have to go through customs — why do we have to go through customs anyway ? … ) ; terrible fatigue on the train to Paris , and temperamental French men shouting and swearing at each other in the aisle ; relief at finding Angela 's flat in Paris ; difficult negotiation of the very narrow stairwell , finally finding her way at the top on the 6th floor ; food , and wine , and a shower , and a bed-settee for the night ; Japanese tourists at Notre Dame , and a man announcing his state of poverty and homelessness on the Métro — ‘ ‘ . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | On July 30 , Talabani met the UK Prime Minister John Major in London , on the first leg of a European tour , before holding talks on July 31 with French officials in Paris . |
| 18 | Engine trouble on the first leg did n't manage to stop him coming in a creditable second . |
| 19 | ON January 8 , 1875 , young James Springhall bade a tearful farewell to his parents and friends at Middlesbrough railway station on the first leg of an epic journey . |
| 20 | A dawn convoy of four trucks lugged the furnace from Brymbo , Wrexham , on the first leg of a journey which will end in Shanghai . |
| 21 | A dawn convoy of four trucks lugged the furnace from Brymbo , Wrexham , on the first leg of a journey which will end in Shanghai . |
| 22 | A dawn convoy of four trucks lugged the dismantled furnace from Brymbo , on the first leg of a journey which will take it to Shanghai . |
| 23 | The teams will leave Liverpool on the first leg on Sunday , November 15 , but the actual challenge begins on Wednesday , November 18 . |
| 24 | Don and Steven made the most accurate estimates of how long it would take Courtaulds InterSpray , the Group 's entry in the race , to reach Rio de Janeiro from Southampton on the first leg . |
| 25 | Indeed Maiden was competitive which on the first leg may have come as a surprise to the girls . |