Example sentences of "[pron] on the first [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | That I On the first point about us and our own showing of forgiveness . |
| 2 | The horse hurt himself on the first jump and despite leading for much of the way round never really mastered the race . |
| 3 | Indeed Maiden was competitive which on the first leg may have come as a surprise to the girls . |
| 4 | Behind the showroom was the Farrs ' house which on the first floor extended to the street . |
| 5 | Bastian , the independent scholar/dealer , who organised the show together with another independent curator , Werner Spies , says that he is most pleased with the reaction of an old couple from Dresden , who on the first day said that they had been longing to see Picasso 's work for forty years . |
| 6 | Office workers who on the first day possible in the early year had rushed out in their lunch hour to cover any patch of grass with bare legs and arms , floral patterns and jackets , as if some strange immediate growth had been brought out by the sun , to die back in the early afternoon , had by now got the habit of staying in the dark bowels of buildings when they could . |
| 7 | This was a move forward for one young man , who on the first meeting called Philip ‘ The grey haired old GIT . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Good , ’ said the corporal , ‘ because we 're always gentle with you on the first day . ’ |
| 9 | Your player used to test you on the first hole . |
| 10 | Because here 's the weird thing about these relationships with women : you get everything on the first date . |
| 11 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |
| 12 | A malfunctioning main undercarriage gear meant that NAA missed out on a $ 250,000 bonus for exceeding Mach One on the first flight . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 20 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 25 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | Or does n't , you know , exhaustively optimize it on the first pass , all the time . |
| 28 | And then do it on the first time well if he wanted , he do n't have to go . |
| 29 | ‘ A tale from Lamb , ’ she muttered , opening it on the first page . |
| 30 | One of 11 auctioneering firms participating in the CLASS operation are Cheshire-based Wright-Manley who offered two lots on the first day of the new system which is linked to the offices of some 30 buyers , mostly abattoirs . |