Example sentences of "on [pron] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 2 | HarperCollins weighs in with the A format of Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts ' Mistress of Empire ( £4.99 ) , while The Curse of the Mistwraith ( £8.99 ) sees Wurts on her own with the first a new series . |
| 3 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 4 | Married students are therefore advised to come to Edinburgh on their own in the first instance and to send for their families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 5 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |
| 6 | It is not being wise after the event to say it was a mistake to appoint Colin Harvey on his own in the first place and it was another mistake in re-appointing Kendall . |
| 7 | I 'm glad you wo n't be on your own for the first night . |