Example sentences of "at [noun] [noun prp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group of eight pupils had joined Mr Pointer and the two instructors at Lyme Regis on the first full day of their week-long stay . |
| 2 | Bates back at Roland Garros for the first time in three years opens his challenge against Ctislav Dosedel of the Czech Republic , a player ranked nine places lower on the world computer at 111 . |
| 3 | On this day : the Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes was renamed Yugoslavia , 1929 ; the first British atomic device was exploded in the Monte Bello islands in the Pacific , 1952 ; the Bolshoi Ballet appeared at Covent Garden for the first time , 1956 . |
| 4 | The two foremen in charge of this shell machine shop were , Sid Freeman and Percy Dyball , both toolmakers , the former for a time employed at Woolwich Arsenal during the first war ; he was later made a foreman in the Fitting Shop . |
| 5 | The meetings are normally held in the Council Chamber at Moorgate Place on the first Wednesday of every month ( except September ) . |