Example sentences of "[verb] on the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1984 Denison set up his own practice , Denison Peters Limited , to work on the first big project on the Leeds riverside , a housing scheme of part converted corn chandlers and part newly built flats . |
| 2 | I would also like to know how to get the Van Halen and Brian May sounds , and also the type of sound used on the first Extreme album , during the songs Watching , Waiting and Mutha as the distortion on both sounds smoother and less buzzy . |
| 3 | This presents a new set of statistics relating to land use change , based on the first full year 's data ( 1985 ) of a three-year trial project . |
| 4 | Saintfield Heritage Society — talk on the first recorded invasion of Ulster , Saintfield Library 8.15pm . |
| 5 | His request was not complied with , and the Hearing was not convened on the first lawful day after the children 's removal . |
| 6 | Payment of the disturbance allowance at the Yorkshire Bank is also made in two equal instalments ; one is given on the first available salary pay day after the move to the new house , the other is paid when the bank receives the proceeds of the sale of the employee 's old house . |
| 7 | On the left were his sisters , May , in Australia , and Alice , gone on the first available post-war ship to America and her man . |
| 8 | The choreographer was Onna White , who had worked on the first musical version of a Charles Dickens book , Oliver ! , the 1968 British film starring Ron Moody and Oliver Reed — for which she won a special Oscar — and had staged Half a Sixpence in New York , featuring Tommy Steele . |
| 9 | The tide would carry them inland at least two miles and possibly three before they were beached on the first low ridge that had been the coastline a million years before the birth of Christ . |
| 10 | He put on the first English show of American Abstract Expressionists , and the British critics sniffed . |
| 11 | Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea , two small clumps of trees , one on each side of the only fault in the impeccable joint , marked the mouth of the river Meinam we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our homeward journey ; and , far back on the inland level , a larger and loftier mass , the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda , was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon ( 4 ) . |
| 12 | Among the passengers was Mr. W. H. Troake , former Stores Superintendent of Croydon Corporation Tramways , who is said to have ridden on the first electric car in Croydon . |