Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may indeed remind my friend of a thought I had by referring to it as the one I had on first wakening in Venice . |
| 2 | Two stimuli were used , the offset of a light and the presentation of a clicker , both of which tended on first presentation to evoke a suppression of ongoing behaviour . |
| 3 | Enough to make you gag on first crunch , surely . |
| 4 | The basis of lateral thinking is to be provocative with your ideas and to put them forward however bizarre or ridiculous they sound on first hearing . |
| 5 | Although signatures can be added after the initial printing of the Motion ( and usually are ) , its impact is judged very much on the amount of support it receives on first printing . |
| 6 | At the end of a quarter of a mile of rough track it seems on first sight to be a typically humble and remote farmhouse , with its low and unobtrusive policies almost growing around it . |
| 7 | ‘ Not as bad as it looked on first assessment . |