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 | The working leg is thrust outwards on the first beat of a bar , heels click and stamp to accent the appropriate beats . |
| 3 | The Association meets regularly on the first Friday of each month , at the RE Centre , when mass is said by our chaplain , Fr. |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Clinton needs 2,145 delegates to win outright on the first Democratic Party ballot at the July convention . |
| 6 | Spenser dwells longest on the first , revealing it filled with ‘ infinite shapes of things dispersed thin' ( II , IX , 50 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Price powered home on the first count with 465 first preference votes , but Beth mustered only 11 . |
| 9 | At four he lost only on the first and last outings ( beaten narrowly on both occasions ) of a sixteen-race campaign . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is time to recognise the last three phases — currently we have concentrated primarily on the first phase . |
| 12 | ‘ Go home on the first flight out of here . |
| 13 | It is to be regretted that teachers dwell disproportionately on the first of these conventional classroom for the sake of a permanent record . |
| 14 | After four attempts to set our 45lb CQR in the thin sand-over-rock bottom , we gave up and put out a couple of 40lb Danforths , both of which bit hard on the first attempt . |
| 15 | What 'appened there on the first of June last year were n't just a tragedy , oh no . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the yacht did well on the first leg , finishing sixth . |
| 17 | Judgment was reserved yesterday on the first legal moves to pin the blame for the contamination . |
| 18 | The leading group became 16 riders at Alsager , after 30 miles , and then split again on the first big climb of the day 15 miles later . |
| 19 | I We 'd talked about it and said Well , we 're not going to get married whilst war 's on , as er probably the generation before , had said in nineteen fourteen , and er we got married eventually on the first of December , nineteen forty . |
| 20 | The first ‘ official ’ race was held in 1972 and it has been held annually on the first or second Wednesday in May ever since . |