Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] on [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm on the first flight to Milan in the morning . ’ |
| 2 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 3 | If you are on the first field of an option and you press BACKSPACE , an error message is reported at the foot of the page . |
| 4 | You may knit the background or the pattern stitches of each row first , depending on whether you 're on the first two , or the last two , rows of the four-row cycle . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's on the first floor . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The bookies are offering longer odds on Doncaster winning anything than they are on the first Martian landing in Newton Aycliffe . ’ |
| 7 | We do n't know whether they 're on , they 're on the first , second or third ? |
| 8 | Nigel 's arrangement of the white slaves , as he called the domestic machines , positioned as they were on the first floor , entailed many journeys upstairs to inspect their progress . |
| 9 | There they were on the first , belated , league Saturday of the season , celebrating their arrival in the first division , unveiling new-look Sunbury as a showpiece of healthy ambition and running Bath so close that the perennial might of the champions was instantly called into question . |
| 10 | The Rye are proof that this idea works : they were on the first tour two years ago and are now probably the hottest property in the region . |
| 11 | But could we please be told just a little bit more about Compus course , er run by Horizon , that 's mentioned in the last paragraph , erm on the , on green one , it 's on the first page . |
| 12 | I think he 's thirty eight , and he 's on the first team . |
| 13 | He 's on the first team today . |
| 14 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 15 | It was on the first floor of a late Victorian house in a road which was not too far from Craven Cottage . |
| 16 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 17 | ‘ It was on the first night that Lesley-Jane told you she was pregnant . ’ |
| 18 | It was on the first tape . |
| 19 | The household chaplain , whose role it was to minister to the spiritual needs of princely families , could also produce letters , such as those written for Stephen of Blois to his wife Adela while he was on the First Crusade ; or charters , like those produced for the post-Conquest dukes of Normandy . |
| 20 | He was on the first train into London and founded the earliest Railway Magazine in 1835 . |
| 21 | Mind you , erm , I have n't been conscious about him at all , even when he was on the first of all . |