Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] on [art] first " 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 | so the scheme , there 's a scheme number as well , I do n't want that yes , that 's one , and that started on the first of August nineteen ninety good that 's fine , yeah , so the information 's there |
| 3 | Turn left from the entrance and wait on the first corner . |
| 4 | So can we just ignore that for the moment and focus on the first sheet deliberately |
| 5 | I just went as I was and got on the first train I could find . |
| 6 | The glissando begins on the second beat , reaches its upward limit on the third , returns to its starting-point on the fourth , and ends on the first beat of the next bar . |
| 7 | In a simple case , where your seller 's solicitor is at a considerable distance , or where there is perhaps already an examined abstract or epitome of the greater part of the title , you may postpone this examination until immediately before completion , in which case strike this item out of your pre-completion agenda and rely on the first item of your completion agenda . |
| 8 | She had a burning desire to pack her case and leave on the first mode of transport she could find — she would even settle for a donkey if there was one . |
| 9 | We supposedly get a couple of days to recharge and then turn up refreshed here to shine and glitter on the first night while they 're wrecked . |
| 10 | The rites begin at the equinox and culminate on the first day of the New Year with festivals identified with bowls of plenty ; the festivals are associated with flowers such as roses , fruits such as oranges , fair crops such as cotton , and even sun-worship and appeasement of great reptiles such as alligators . |
| 11 | Lexicographer 's requests will be queued and serviced on a first come first served basis . |
| 12 | The second rectangle is first imagined as superimposed on the first then moved vertically downwards 1 cm and rotated 45 degrees clockwise about its own top left corner . |
| 13 | The rule for pre-trading expenditure which deems such capital expenditure as incurred on the first day of trading will not apply in determining whether the expenditure was incurred in the year ending 31 October 1993 . |
| 14 | Here we seem to be implicitly relying on a further assumption , namely an assumption of topical coherence : if a second utterance can be interpreted as following on a first utterance , in the sense that they can be " heard " as being concerned with the same topic , then such an interpretation of the second utterance is warranted unless there are overt indications to the contrary ( again , see Chapters 3 and 6 ) . |