Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the first day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accusations came during the first day of a tribunal in which Ron Thomson claims he was forced to quit his post as general manager at the trust . |
| 2 | When Liz Headleand woke on the first day of 1980 and found herself in bed with her husband , she remembered instantly the scene of the night before , and wondered how she could ever have been so upset by it . |
| 3 | The announcement came on the first day of a planned four-day general strike called by the Confederation of Trade Unions ( CTU ) to protest at the country 's perilous economic situation [ see p. 38836 ] . |
| 4 | The allegations of drug-taking sessions came on the first day of Murray 's trial before Lord Kirkwood . |
| 5 | Stock boats came on the first day , they start coming away in May . |
| 6 | The deluge began on the first day of September 1963 . |
| 7 | The cliffs near our cottage , we discovered on the first day of that holiday , were wild and forbidding : of ancient , dark volcanic rock . |
| 8 | Constant hum , people started from the first day and they 've been flowing through ever since with a high point at the weekend when they 've had more time to come up to London to have a look at things look at things . |
| 9 | If you decided on the first day of the PIW you could not pay the SSP or that you had to stop paying SSP during the PIW , you employee can not get SSP now . |
| 10 | From the beginning they had a solid lack of confidence in King Edward VIII , ‘ S.B. is distinctly nervous about him , ’ Jones recorded on the first day of the new reign . ’ |
| 11 | It worked on the first day of application . |
| 12 | Dealers emerged from the first day 's sale of the Blackmer library gasping at the high prices . |
| 13 | The uppers , made of one piece calf leather with leather bellows , well padded tongue and collar , provided the comfort I remembered from the first day . |
| 14 | The revelations emerged on the first day of the World Indoor Championships in Toronto , representing the worst possible news for beleaguered international athletics officials coming hot on the heels of the repeat Ben Johnson scandal . |
| 15 | I can remember what I did on the first day of my holiday last year |
| 16 | In his ‘ Thought for the day ’ , on Radio Scotland , on 29th April , our Minister told of his family 's ‘ drawer ’ , where cherished things were kept , such as ‘ old football programmes , an envelope postmarked on the first day of the Queen 's reign , the autograph of Sir William Smith , founder of the B.B. ’ He explained that such things , if given to us , could be sold to feed the world 's hungry people . |
| 17 | " Why are they doing all this work so early in the morning ? " she asked Captain Duro when he appeared on deck looking as spruce and polished as he had on the first day she met him . |
| 18 | The first secretary , Miss Coldharbour , Canon Wheeler 's immaculate conception , as Ian called her , had on the first day coolly returned Julia 's first batch of letters with mistakes marked in a soft shorthand pencil which proved difficult to eradicate cleanly with a rubber when the corrections had been made . |
| 19 | Of the 104 launched on the first day of the war , it seems , 10–20 fell from the sky . |