Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children just beginning on their first language have to solve the problem of how forms map on to meanings . |
| 2 | The new company is already working on its first major contract , worth £20 million , to rebuild the country 's naval base . |
| 3 | His prose-poetry had tumbled into full prose , and he was now engaged on his first novel , under the title of Beauty At Close Quarters . |
| 4 | At first I was not aware that all the crews in the PFF had been selected by their Groups and , in the main , were either second tour volunteers or were well advanced on their first tour . |
| 5 | I never ticked it , it does damn all for me , I do n't see why I should n't insist on my first colour-choice or nothing . |
| 6 | The CPNI was not instrumental in creating NICRA but it was well represented on its first executive committee : Noel Harris of AUEW TASS , a CPNI member , was the first chairman ; Derek Peters of the CPNI was secretary ; and Betty Sinclair of the Belfast trades council was elected to the committee . |
| 7 | If you can not do everything at once , or want to start making staged improvements , either concentrate on your first priorities ( leaving space for the next stages ) or your worst problems-depending on whether you are planning a first-time kitchen or updating an existing one . |
| 8 | Remember that afterwards you may be making an offer , so a more careful visual inspection must be made at this stage , and the matters only briefly considered on your first visit should be looked at in more depth now . |
| 9 | For , having barely embarked on their first Industrial Revolution , many Third World nations tend to regard their tribal peoples with the same antagonism which caused the " maturer " nations to extinguish theirs just a century earlier . |
| 10 | Not content with writing for magazines Vanessa is currently working on her first novel , a humorous look at xxxxx xxxxx . |