Example sentences of "[prep] first [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's that at the age of 34 , fourteen years after first shambling on stage in downtown Chicago , having criss-crossed the stand-up circuit from coast to coast and guested on very hip chat show from David Letterman to Arsenio Hall , he should be bigger than he is . |
| 2 | Length 11 miles ( 17.5km ) , 7 hours Difficulty 4 Start Lay-by on A82 , 3¾ miles E of Glen Coe NT visitor centre and just where the road enters small rocky gorge ( ¼ mile after first house on left ) . |
| 3 | In a verdict hailed by federal prosecutors as the most important achieved against the Mafia since that against Al Capone in 1931 , a New York court of first instance on April 2 convicted John Gotti , reputedly the head of the New York Gambino " family " , on 13 counts including murder , conspiracy to murder , illegal gambling , loan sharking , obstructing justice , bribing a public official , and tax evasion . |
| 4 | LIN , which last month entered into a merger agreement with Bell South in an attempt to repel McCaw , has the right of first refusal on Metromedia 's stake , which would pre-empt the deal with McCaw . |
| 5 | McCaw last week agreed to pay $1.9bn for Metromedia 's half of the licence , but that deal in turn hinged on whether LIN took up its right of first refusal on Metromedia 's stake . |
| 6 | As part of the deal he gave Wildenstein 's the right of first refusal on 15 of his paintings should his heirs seek to sell them . |
| 7 | My Series III jumps out of first gear on over-run . |
| 8 | Whatever happens , the Scot , who meets Dennis Taylor in the last 16 , is guaranteed to leapfrog back over Jimmy White into first place on the provisional world ranking list . |
| 9 | The festive period this year is a good time for seeking out the various shapes or figures in the Moon , for its phase grows ( waxes ) from first quarter on 23 December to full on 30 December . |
| 10 | Their line and length was immaculate and after 16 overs Park were still in first gear on 28 for one . |
| 11 | I regret that I had been out of the office on the 15 July and did not receive your FAX until first thing on the 16 July . |
| 12 | At long last Cyril Bleasdale , the director of ScotRail , is doing something about first class on the 158 trains , more leg-room , larger tables and new upholstery ( as reported on 17 March ) . |
| 13 | Crewe wo n't be rushing him but we 're told that Liverpool are so impressed they 've asked for first option on him . |
| 14 | KALAMAZOO GOES TO NETHERLANDS FOR FIRST ACQUISITION ON THE CONTINENT |
| 15 | The centre-right Hungarian Democratic Forum ( HDF or MDF ) and its allies emerged as the clear winners of the Hungarian general election after the second round of voting on April 8 [ for first round on March 25 see pp. 37325-26 ] . |
| 16 | Two tie for first place on 68 |
| 17 | Woe betide anyone who moved that bar forward without first indenting on stores . |
| 18 | Their father never opened their front door without first pulling on his coat , no matter what state he was in , and none of the boys were ever allowed to admit a visitor while they or anyone else was in a state of undress . |
| 19 | European shareholders have ‘ pre-emption rights ’ which entitle them to first call on secondary offerings ; and underwriting is common practice for new issues , too . |
| 20 | It gives Universal the rights to first refusal on all Lee 's projects as writer , director , producer and actor and everything developed by his 40 Acres And A Mule company . |
| 21 | Furthermore a clause in the draft of the bill which would have allowed the use of state school premises after school hours for religious instruction had been dropped after the Supreme Soviet had failed to reach agreement on it after passing the whole bill at first reading on Sept. 26 . |
| 22 | To add to these burdens , the 1340 tax of a ninth of corn , sheep and wool , from which the clergy had obtained exemption by their grant of a normal tenth , was nevertheless applied to them by many local officials at first acting on their own initiative , but after January 1341 on the king 's orders . |
| 23 | To conclude on our milk recording results the most intriguing item is our group results graph which shows annual milk yield on one side and average milk yield at first recording on the other . |
| 24 | At first starting on an ad hoc and ad hominem basis before the birth of the Romanov dynasty , the system of transporting the unwanted criminal detritus and the antisocial , nonconformist and subversive members of the Russian social and political order — both tsarist and Soviet — steadily generated a huge sprawling diaspora comprising millions of wretched human beings who were banished to the living purgatory of Siberian exile . |
| 25 | At first light on 15 May , the Battalion was machine-gunned from the air . |
| 26 | The entire German Army attacked at first light on 28 August . |
| 27 | At first light on Tuesday , 17 January , a wide-awake Warden scanned the flock of white-fronted geese grazing on the banks of the Severn estuary — and found the exciting stranger in his telescope . |
| 28 | At first light on Tuesday 8 May advance units of 6 Armoured Division crossed the frontier into Austria and at 10 am [ KP 54 ] they entered the provincial capital of Carinthia , Klagenfurt . |
| 29 | Send your answers ( for example , 1=E , 2=A and so on ) and your name and address on a postcard to : BBC Gardeners ' World Magazine /Bradstone Competition , PO Box 55 , Wetherby , West Yorks LS23 7ET to arrive by first post on Friday September 13 , 1991 . |
| 30 | Members , branches , action groups , etc who intend to propose motions for debate , are asked to make sure that these are received at HQ in St Albans by first post on FRIDAY , FEBRUARY 7 , 1992 . |