Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] on the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | With every nerve on edge and my heart pumping I put my foot on the first stair . |
| 2 | All my motions on the first day . |
| 3 | ‘ During one practice session , ’ writes Iain , ‘ I perpetrated the highest , latest and crudest tackle of my life on the first XI 's star player , a footballer of considerable skill . |
| 4 | I think it is , and therefore my judgment on the first demurrer is for the plaintiff . |
| 5 | " Alone , " she told my mother on the first night . |
| 6 | As she set her foot on the first one she turned involuntarily and gave one last look at the parade — and started uncomfortably at what she saw . |
| 7 | The monitors , who meet to discuss their audits on the first Friday of every month , are : . |
| 8 | Greig was gracious in defeat , saying that their play on the first day deserved every credit . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | MANY churches were focusing their prayers on the first Sunday of December to guide them in their response to AIDS . |
| 11 | The earliest of these postscripts to survive dates from the day after their departure on the first trip ( 12 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't want to see him , ’ Anna said , remembering her inoculation on the first day back , and how it had hurt . |
| 13 | Yeah you only need to write their details on the first page in which they appear . |
| 14 | The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) in Vienna is close to finishing its report on the first systematic study of the Chernobyl region by outsiders . |
| 15 | Dancer , however , was warned well in advance that Miss Lodsworth would be holding an All-Rutshire Jamboree in her garden on the first Saturday in September and had promised there would be no stick and balling that afternoon . |
| 16 | In her report on the first two years , Ms Costigan said : ‘ The area where they live is a tourist area and on the whole is a very beautiful area , but for the young people who live here it does have its drawbacks . ’ |
| 17 | Example 58 , from Handel 's Messiah , is an early but outstanding example of a powerful accompaniment based on three rhythmic elements : Two elements only are used at first , the ‘ chord ’ rhythm of the upbeat quaver chord at the end of each bar , with its resolution on the first beat of the next bar , and then the higher quaver and semiquaver rhythm . |
| 18 | Over the past 30 years investors in American and British IPOs who sold their shares on the first trading day earned returns of 15% and 12% respectively . |
| 19 | Two weeks into the new season Rose Lipman , sitting in her office on the first floor , heard a cry pitched like the squeal of a snared rabbit coming from No.1 dressing-room . |
| 20 | He pushed open the door and , as he put his foot on the first step , experienced a revelation comparable to that undergone by Newton in the orchard or Archimedes in his bath . |
| 21 | Seb backed up his threat with a two-pronged pitchfork , jabbing it to within inches of Boz 's face as the gipsy placed his foot on the first rung . |
| 22 | He put his foot on the first step and paused , listening . ’ |
| 23 | His writing-room on the first floor contains an unprepossessing table and a sideboard , on which sit his word-processor and printer . |
| 24 | Below : John Barry grits his teeth on the first pitch of Thin Wall Special ( E1 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Wycliffe left his car on the first car park he came to and walked . |
| 27 | If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now . |
| 28 | And it was an honour in both senses , for , like his counterpart on the first tee at the Dunluce course — qualifiers play both championship . |
| 29 | Ninety-six per cent of the voters followed his lead on the first question and two-thirds on the second . |
| 30 | Hope bowed more elegantly , muttered the line about being her servant but concentrated all his will on the first look direct . |