Example sentences of "[verb] on the first day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The image of hope which had thus arisen in Williamson 's mind was soured by the reality of his second obsession : the sheer horror of his experience on 1 July 1916 , when 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme . |
| 2 | The admission by Hammersmith and Fulham was disclosed on the first day of a case brought by Anthony Hazell , the local district auditor . |
| 3 | When the US Marine Corps ' 2 Division stormed ashore at Tarawa in November 1943 , a third of the 5,000 marines landing on the first day were casualties because the Japanese were well prepared and the tide played fateful tricks over the reefs . |
| 4 | Police urged racegoers to be on their guard after six separate incidents of forged £20 notes were reported on the first day . |
| 5 | Walking into the ISDN User Show at Wembley , North London the other day , the first four stands belonged to communications magazines : cynics might see this as evidence that the technology is still at the hype and talk stage , but most exhibitors seemed pleased by the degree to which visitors ' questions had progressed past the ‘ what is ISDN anyway ’ stage to the ‘ how much does this box cost ’ phase ; some 900 visitors attended on the first day , the second seemed rather busier and at some of the conference sessions , notably British Telecommunications Plc 's ‘ where are we now ’ presentation , it was standing room only … |
| 6 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 7 | When Liz Headleand woke on the first day of 1980 and found herself in bed with her husband , she remembered instantly the scene of the night before , and wondered how she could ever have been so upset by it . |
| 8 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 9 | The announcement came on the first day of a planned four-day general strike called by the Confederation of Trade Unions ( CTU ) to protest at the country 's perilous economic situation [ see p. 38836 ] . |
| 10 | The allegations of drug-taking sessions came on the first day of Murray 's trial before Lord Kirkwood . |
| 11 | Stock boats came on the first day , they start coming away in May . |
| 12 | It was a most impressive performance by the 25-year-old Lahore left-hander in only his third Test appearance , all his 205 runs made on the first day before an understandable concentration lapse . |
| 13 | On 26 April 1991 the Bank of England , who have entered the action as interveners pursuant to my order made on the first day of the hearing last Tuesday , served on the defendants a notice pursuant to section 39(3) ( a ) of the Banking Act 1987 , requiring them to produce at Threadneedle Street at noon on 9 May 1991 a number of specified documents ( comprising all or some of the documents covered by the injunction ) and stated to concern or relate to the accounts or related business of seven of the plaintiffs including A , on the ground that they were reasonably required by the Bank of England for the performance of its functions under the Act . |
| 14 | This is something which they manage on the first day , and then never repeat . |
| 15 | When the delegates from Western literature meet on the first day to pray for their existence , there is an attempted disruption of the ceremony by Muslim fundamentalists who claim to object to the Christian format of the proceedings , but , as we later discover , their real target is the elusive Gibreel Farishta whom they are trying to punish for his heretical views . |
| 16 | He also took a stick out of the packet of Edinburgh rock he had bought on the first day . |
| 17 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded . |
| 18 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded on the stock market . |
| 19 | The deluge began on the first day of September 1963 . |
| 20 | The little boy was wearing the same neat grey flannels that he had worn on the first day Robert had seen him , and , when the sun struck his face , he smiled up at it as if in gratitude . |
| 21 | BORN on the first day of this century — so we always know how old he is — George Singleton is a veteran of the golden age of cinema . |
| 22 | The cliffs near our cottage , we discovered on the first day of that holiday , were wild and forbidding : of ancient , dark volcanic rock . |
| 23 | THOUSANDS of Namibians stood in long queues , stretching nearly a mile in some cases , as they waited to vote on the first day of Namibia 's five-day pre-independence election yesterday . |
| 24 | That 's what we remember on the first day we called her in chapel . |
| 25 | If you decided on the first day of the PIW you could not pay the SSP or that you had to stop paying SSP during the PIW , you employee can not get SSP now . |
| 26 | 1979 ; Wells 1981 ) have reported that the amount of talk by children and their caretakers varies , both in respect of the time of day ( more talk first thing in the morning and early afternoon ) and as a function of their familiarity with the process of being recorded ( less talk on the first day , compared with subsequent days ) . |
| 27 | ( 4 ) Subject to section 13(2) of this Act , if no application is made for the renewal of a licence at the quarterly meeting mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) above , the licence shall expire on the first day of that meeting . |
| 28 | During the police questioning on the first day , some of the parents were asked about Satan and satanism . |
| 29 | From the beginning they had a solid lack of confidence in King Edward VIII , ‘ S.B. is distinctly nervous about him , ’ Jones recorded on the first day of the new reign . ’ |
| 30 | It worked on the first day of application . |