Example sentences of "[pers pn] on [art] first " in BNC.

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1 That I On the first point about us and our own showing of forgiveness .
2 So we 'll pop you on the first one tomorrow . ’
3 Your player used to test you on the first hole .
4 ‘ Good , ’ said the corporal , ‘ because we 're always gentle with you on the first day . ’
5 Asked if they would lose respect for a woman who was prepared to sleep with them on a first date , 24% neither agree nor disagree ; 18% strongly disagree ; 17% tend to disagree ; 16% tend to agree ; 15% strongly agree and 10% do n't know .
6 If they 're all on a par , we take them on a first come , first served basis .
7 Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder .
8 One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent .
9 Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers .
10 Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) .
11 Erm y'know even if it takes them quite a while to fill out y'know go through all eighty items y'know which could be erm y'know kind of , well depending how quickly they work y'know , sort of half an hour or something but if you if you get some er er a sort of type-written draft run off um I du n no , next Tuesday 's quite a quite a short deadline but maybe the Tuesday after that er we can try them on the first years if you like ?
12 It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence .
13 ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg .
14 ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out .
15 Ann , would you be able to have Sally for me on the first of May ?
16 The ascent in 1865 was just a week before Whymper climbed the Matterhorn , Moore was partnered by Horace Walker , who , the same year , was with him on the first ascent of the Brenva Ridge on Mt Blanc , and by guide Jakob Anderegg .
17 ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance .
18 It was a risk , for she might well have run headlong into him on the first floor landing , but she had luck , and was round the next turn of the stairs when she checked and froze against the wall , hearing his rapid steps on the oak treads below her .
19 Of the twenty original members it is likely that only two ( Sir Keith Joseph and Airey Neave ) voted for her on the first ballot for the leadershiP election in 1975 .
20 In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap .
21 ‘ A tale from Lamb , ’ she muttered , opening it on the first page .
22 This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day .
23 Or does n't , you know , exhaustively optimize it on the first pass , all the time .
24 It felt it on the first morning when it came in and I sat on it , I thought well I 'm sure it did n't feel like the one we tried in the shop did n't feel like this but
25 And then do it on the first time well if he wanted , he do n't have to go .
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