Example sentences of "[pers pn] on the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That I On the first point about us and our own showing of forgiveness . |
| 2 | ‘ Good , ’ said the corporal , ‘ because we 're always gentle with you on the first day . ’ |
| 3 | Your player used to test you on the first hole . |
| 4 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 5 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 6 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 8 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 9 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 10 | The ascent in 1865 was just a week before Whymper climbed the Matterhorn , Moore was partnered by Horace Walker , who , the same year , was with him on the first ascent of the Brenva Ridge on Mt Blanc , and by guide Jakob Anderegg . |
| 11 | It was a risk , for she might well have run headlong into him on the first floor landing , but she had luck , and was round the next turn of the stairs when she checked and froze against the wall , hearing his rapid steps on the oak treads below her . |
| 12 | Of the twenty original members it is likely that only two ( Sir Keith Joseph and Airey Neave ) voted for her on the first ballot for the leadershiP election in 1975 . |
| 13 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 14 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 15 | It felt it on the first morning when it came in and I sat on it , I thought well I 'm sure it did n't feel like the one we tried in the shop did n't feel like this but |
| 16 | Or does n't , you know , exhaustively optimize it on the first pass , all the time . |
| 17 | And then do it on the first time well if he wanted , he do n't have to go . |
| 18 | ‘ A tale from Lamb , ’ she muttered , opening it on the first page . |