Example sentences of "[noun] on the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 25000 visitors crammed the 500 plus stands on the first day of the show , in Ghent , to look at new developments in materials science , biotechnology , microelectronics and engineering . |
| 2 | Whether or not you have another attempt at the let-down , must be your decision in the light of any guidelines on the first go . |
| 3 | ‘ The songs on the first album stem from a period a year and a half ago that was the emotional and physical hole of my life . |
| 4 | Thomas Stocking produced the rococo plasterwork in all the main rooms , and in the eastern bedroom on the first floor there are plaster birds flying overhead . |
| 5 | But Jitka , Katya and Clara O'Neil , aged seven , four and two respectively , were taking every advantage of their father Denis , referred to by them as Pops , because their mother Hana was in the big bedroom on the first floor awaiting the arrival of her fourth child at any minute . |
| 6 | In the bedroom on the first floor Philip woke as the sun came up . |
| 7 | Christina , Stephen and Celia huddled together in the master bedroom on the first floor , listening to the whirlwind hell-bent on destruction . |
| 8 | And she wondered , as she headed for the hallway and the staircase that led up to her bedroom on the first floor , why the fact that that had not happened troubled her so . |
| 9 | probably a cup final and they 're still playing football on the first of May . |
| 10 | As a final straw , on going to change Perdita discovered she 'd got the curse , which was invariably as bloody as Culloden on the first day . |
| 11 | These both include many steps with the so-called ‘ dotted ’ rhythm i.e. in 3/4 the dancer steps on the first beat , holds on the second and briefly takes weight on the other foot on the third before stepping onwards . |
| 12 | Theda was more amused than offended , and when the assistants began scurrying about the little salon on the first floor , bringing samples for her to try , she very quickly fell into a mood of unqualified enjoyment . |
| 13 | Guy Nicot , the Louvre ( and Elysée Palace ) architect currently supervising work on the Museum 's Cour Napoléon will leave his offices on the first floor of the west side of the Cour Lefuel ( once the apartments of Napoléon III 's Master of the Horse ) to make way for Dutch and Flemish sculptures ; German pieces will be housed underneath on the ground floor . |
| 14 | Now they could see that Jimmy was tugging a large metal filing cabinet with him , dragged from one of the side offices on the first floor . |
| 15 | ‘ Through the offices on the first floor . ’ |
| 16 | Alternatively , if you can afford it , you can continue paying the premiums on the first policy as well as taking out your second joint endowment . |
| 17 | He had not got a result on the first case because he had not been sharp enough . |
| 18 | For bonds which do not fall in value below £20,000 on the first anniversary there is a bonus of 0.4% gross ( 0.3% net ) . |
| 19 | Wycliffe left his car on the first car park he came to and walked . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Police search officers found the plastic explosive on the first floor of the shop after a telephone warning . |
| 22 | This was once known as San Carlo 's Stable because of the archbishop 's mules were kept on the ground floor , the horses of the higher clergy on the first floor and hay for the animals on the upper floor . |
| 23 | The firm of Wilkes , Son and Cassey ceased trading in 1926 , the business and premises were purchased by The Salisbury Co-operative Society Limited who then only stocked larger items of ironmongery and added a furniture department on the first floor . |
| 24 | They have a department on the first floor ( best reached by door ten ) housing what they call the Plus Collection . |
| 25 | The bomb , which was left in the bargain book department on the first floor of the store , destroyed four units . |
| 26 | The inhabitants of Thrush Green were able to gaze their fill at the stranger on the first Sunday after his arrival , as he attended morning service in a dove-grey suit which was far better cut , everyone agreed , than those of the other males in the congregation . |
| 27 | I 'll erm , I 'll venture and , and my parents said yes , that would be alright and so er so I came along and erm of course , it happened that he was in the he was in the forge talking to Hector on the first evening I came and that was how we met . |
| 28 | Regarding Part 1 of Table 6.11 they concluded , ‘ As can be seen , all factors are significantly greater than the chance level ( 5 % ) with particularly heavy weight on the first two . |
| 29 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 30 | In the winter the Green Study on the first floor was used ; it was awesome for me following the master there — he was not fond of women novelists with the exception of Evelyn Wharton who had often come to stay at Lamb House . |