Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] on the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 4 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |
| 5 | ‘ A tale from Lamb , ’ she muttered , opening it on the first page . |
| 6 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 9 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 10 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
| 11 | Because here 's the weird thing about these relationships with women : you get everything on the first date . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |
| 15 | Or does n't , you know , exhaustively optimize it on the first pass , all the time . |
| 16 | The horse hurt himself on the first jump and despite leading for much of the way round never really mastered the race . |
| 17 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And then do it on the first time well if he wanted , he do n't have to go . |
| 21 | Your player used to test you on the first hole . |
| 22 | So we 'll pop you on the first one tomorrow . ’ |