Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the US Marine Corps ' 2 Division stormed ashore at Tarawa in November 1943 , a third of the 5,000 marines landing on the first day were casualties because the Japanese were well prepared and the tide played fateful tricks over the reefs . |
| 2 | Tit for Tat begins by cooperating on the first move and thereafter simply copies the previous move of the other player . |
| 3 | The fleet had gone east to Lantic Bay that day , and the first boats were already returning on the first of the ebb . |
| 4 | I left the main group and started searching on the first floor at the west side of the house . |
| 5 | Commenting on the first condition of the concession , it is clear that Mrs X does receive the car in her own right as an employee , and more importantly , company secretary . |
| 6 | Including a review of material already published about women and philosophy , she distinguishes between female , feminine and feminist points of view , and then , focusing on the first of these , she considers how philosophy could or would be affected by the inclusion of more women in its institutional structures . |
| 7 | During the police questioning on the first day , some of the parents were asked about Satan and satanism . |
| 8 | In three rounds of voting on the first day of the two-day congress held in Gdansk , Krzaklewski emerged as winner from a field of seven candidates . |
| 9 | With the whole fleet converging on the first mark it can often get rather chaotic , as everyone is eager to blast off on to the reach . |
| 10 | The Fifties were the years of its vendetta with show business , which began in 1947 with the jailing of ‘ the Hollywood Ten ’ , writers who held that their political opinions were no business of the Committee , relying on the First Amendment to the Constitution which guarantees freedom of thought and belief . |
| 11 | When my date comes back the credits are rolling on the first film . |
| 12 | Gryschenko had been known to be unhappy about embarking on the first leg of the race . |
| 13 | He considered leaving on the first train in the morning . |
| 14 | The horse is leaving ‘ home ’ so make sure that he is going forward and is concentrating on the first fence ahead . |
| 15 | Eva was too busy concentrating on the first foothold to wonder what she had done with it . |
| 16 | Here we seem to be implicitly relying on a further assumption , namely an assumption of topical coherence : if a second utterance can be interpreted as following on a first utterance , in the sense that they can be " heard " as being concerned with the same topic , then such an interpretation of the second utterance is warranted unless there are overt indications to the contrary ( again , see Chapters 3 and 6 ) . |
| 17 | The Cordillera Real Mineral Programme is an in-depth metallogenic study following on the first four years ' reconnaissance . |
| 18 | In fact he was still working on a first version of the fourth act ( which eventually became Act III ) when he sailed for New York on 24 September . |
| 19 | We had spent nine months working on the first one ! |
| 20 | She wrote a long and intimate letter to Eleanor describing her state of mind and her new and disturbing sense of isolation , but Eleanor was working on the first draft of her first novel , and replied at length but not to the point . |
| 21 | Even while he was working on the first draft of the poem , he was writing to Martin Browne about all the engagements ahead . |
| 22 | Neither partner could fail to be aware of the interest in their company which , more than once , threatened to result in a book chronicling their success , especially as Laura had just finished working on the first Laura Ashley Book of Home Decorating . |