Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] on the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Gargy Patel looks back on the first twelve months of the motorway completed after two decades of delay . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 5 | Only 25 of the forty aircraft entered were ready to start , and then several dropped out on the first leg due to mechanical problems . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I could double up on the first hit and get better odds . ’ |
| 11 | Mansell 's Newman-Haas team-mate Mario Andretti lines up on the first row after finishing second fastest qualifier with 223.414 mph . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |
| 15 | ‘ Coming up on the first platform , Admiral . |
| 16 | And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | can we accept the recommendation as laid out on the first page of the |
| 21 | But he lost out on the First Division title because he was reluctant to strengthen the team . |
| 22 | This was obviously the pigeons ' favourite delicacy : at the sight of the tin can , the pigeons leapt in the air and fluttered above us waiting to dive down on the first grains ; others landed flirtatiously on Fardine 's arms and shoulders . |
| 23 | Lambert nursed his coughing , shaking aircraft back to the field and thankfully touched down on the first available yard of turf . |
| 24 | It was of the gate to Marie Claire 's villa : a clear bold drawing of the tall wrought-iron gate I had watched the girl go through on the first night I saw her . |
| 25 | Liam McNamara ( a North Shore surfer riding a Willis Phazer ) took off on the first , followed by Tony Moniz ( another local ) on the second and Carroll on the third . |
| 26 | So I will take the blame for that one , but why did n't the machine tuck up on the first two garments of the same size ? |
| 27 | Two more previews to go , and then , at seven o'clock on the Thursday ( early so that the critics could get their copy in ) , the curtain would go up on the first night proper of The Hooded Owl . |
| 28 | Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home . |
| 29 | There was a lot of noise ; people were getting bets down on the first pair . |
| 30 | Andy Payton was denied with a good Bobby Mimms save as he burst through on the first occasion . |