Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the white painted bookcases which reached to the ceiling were filled only on the first two shelves with incongruous modern volumes with used-looking dust-covers . |
| 2 | Driving off on the first day was Sandy Lyle … as a winner of the British Open and American Masters he 's got to be one of the best judges of courses around |
| 3 | Gargy Patel looks back on the first twelve months of the motorway completed after two decades of delay . |
| 4 | And this is a ph , like a photocopy , so what you 'll have is a nice printed version with Abbey Life blue , purely for you to get a feel of if you like , , and in this , we 're very quickly going to go through on the first sheet it will have activity and production and it will have your data there . |
| 5 | The working leg is thrust outwards on the first beat of a bar , heels click and stamp to accent the appropriate beats . |
| 6 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 7 | Only 25 of the forty aircraft entered were ready to start , and then several dropped out on the first leg due to mechanical problems . |
| 8 | The Association meets regularly on the first Friday of each month , at the RE Centre , when mass is said by our chaplain , Fr. |
| 9 | We played late on the first day and I went round in the morning spotting the pin positions , trying to get a feel for the course so I could give the right information to Nick . |
| 10 | Clinton needs 2,145 delegates to win outright on the first Democratic Party ballot at the July convention . |
| 11 | Spenser dwells longest on the first , revealing it filled with ‘ infinite shapes of things dispersed thin' ( II , IX , 50 ) . |
| 12 | He was unseated by a young health promotions officer , Des Lowry , for the SDLP who gained first preference votes of 753 , just seven short of the quota , with sitting SDLP councillor Barry Doherty going through on the first count . |
| 13 | Those who could not escape put in a token appearance , showing themselves before the delegates from their local constituency association and then scuttling off on the first train back to civilization . |
| 14 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |
| 15 | A far cry from the £2 tray meal handed out on the first of the Scenic Land Cruise trains eight years earlier , in a decade of special-train running where sophistication got its chance — and left behind many ordinary folk for whom the railway ‘ excursion ’ is now but a fading memory . |
| 16 | I could double up on the first hit and get better odds . ’ |
| 17 | Mansell 's Newman-Haas team-mate Mario Andretti lines up on the first row after finishing second fastest qualifier with 223.414 mph . |
| 18 | He achieved little on the first day that he spent ‘ in the field ’ but on the second day he got into conversation with a group of men about a puppy that one was carrying . |
| 19 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 20 | THIS MORNING at 7am , 1,250 pairs of arms will churn the warm blue water of the Pacific into foam as the competitors set off on the first , swimming stage of the 11th Ironman Triathlon on and around the little resort of Kailua-Kona here . |
| 21 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |
| 22 | Price powered home on the first count with 465 first preference votes , but Beth mustered only 11 . |
| 23 | At four he lost only on the first and last outings ( beaten narrowly on both occasions ) of a sixteen-race campaign . |
| 24 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 25 | ‘ Coming up on the first platform , Admiral . |
| 26 | And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ? |
| 27 | I would buy the parchment and arrange its transport down to the wharves and we concluded that , if we sold the wine brought back on the first voyage , we would make a profit . |
| 28 | they booked a six week holiday coming back on the first week on boxing day they 've got free car hire for the whole six weeks , not the insurance . |
| 29 | They 're coming back on the first Wednesday of next month with a bus load of about forty Women 's Institute members — ’ She broke off as she realised he was staring at her in horror . |
| 30 | can we accept the recommendation as laid out on the first page of the |