Example sentences of "[noun prp] on [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Around 3,000 Kuwaiti families were reported to have crossed over into Saudi Arabia on the first day , and many of them confirmed reports of widespread killing and looting by Iraqi forces . |
| 32 | Don and Steven made the most accurate estimates of how long it would take Courtaulds InterSpray , the Group 's entry in the race , to reach Rio de Janeiro from Southampton on the first leg . |
| 33 | Four of 252 's Beaufighters had been destroyed on the ground during air raids while on Malta and the remaining four left on the same day for Gibraltar on the first leg of the flight back to England , each carrying three aboard instead of the usual crew of two . |
| 34 | Welcome to Cheltenham on the first day of the national hunt festival . |
| 35 | When I met Francis on the first occasion in that throne room , life had not turned sour for him . |
| 36 | A BRITISH tourist shot dead in New Orleans on the first day of her holiday may have died because her boyfriend refused a mugger 's demand for money . |
| 37 | Then , the day after that leak , the Financial Times ran a story headed ‘ Accountancy firms fall short of standards ’ , based on a confidential report to the DTI on the first year of audit regulation ( p 9 ) . |
| 38 | ‘ They played Ards on the first day of the season and wiped the floor with us in a 3–0 win . |
| 39 | If there is enough snow to make a really big snowman , he may be as tall as Mr A. on the first day , but as he melts , he will shrink to be as tall as Miss B. and then as small as the smallest child , until he finally disappears . |
| 40 | Benny took the bus to Dublin on the first day of term with more trepidation than she would ever have expected . |
| 41 | ‘ We 're returning to Northallerton on the first transport available , ’ Cyril said . |
| 42 | During his stay in Tanzania on the first leg of his seventh visit to Africa , the Pope called for more international aid to Africa and urged the international community " to inaugurate a new era of solidarity with Africa , based on justice and respect " . |
| 43 | 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ? |