Example sentences of "[vb past] on the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drew on the first cigarette for eight years , nearly choked , and wheezed : ‘ First today , anyway . |
| 2 | I hope I do n't add to the confusion of the Borrowdale guidebook editions when I point out that their detailed account of what occurred on the first ascent of Prodigal Sons is in fact what happened on a totally different route named Déj ‘ a Vu . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | The allegations of drug-taking sessions came on the first day of Murray 's trial before Lord Kirkwood . |
| 6 | Stock boats came on the first day , they start coming away in May . |
| 7 | The deluge began on the first day of September 1963 . |
| 8 | Yes , Chair , it 's er , remember at the , the last meeting we touched on the first part of the report , the worry about the issue of closing shops , and rural post offices and garages , and there 's considerable interest from all members er , as to what could be done . |
| 9 | Mr. Gardiner relied on the first part of this quotation as stating the principle of recoverability in wide terms . |
| 10 | The cliffs near our cottage , we discovered on the first day of that holiday , were wild and forbidding : of ancient , dark volcanic rock . |
| 11 | We landed on the first shelf . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | It worked on the first day of application . |
| 15 | Coopers & Lybrand worked on the first study in conjunction with Samuel Montagu , the merchant bank which is handling the sale on behalf of the Government . |
| 16 | When something in that costly box of tricks above the pool side malfunctioned on the first night at the Grove , they had no option but to call on a back-up team of stopwatch timekeepers . |
| 17 | Their 368-word report claims the fire started on the first floor of the Private Chapel close to the altar . |
| 18 | Our problems started on the first pitch . |
| 19 | There was some close racing in the Mirror fleet until Tom Alexander capsized on the first spinnaker reach losing his second place leaving Chris Morgan to win convincingly over Chris Knights . |
| 20 | Some pupils who failed on the first occasion might subsequently succeed because of increasing insight into a concept or because a skill has been practised . |
| 21 | Conventionalism also failed on the first perspective . |
| 22 | ‘ He hopped on the first plane back to Germany . ’ |
| 23 | Signe lived on the first floor . |
| 24 | ‘ Scientists from all over the world gather every year at an obscure location in the Texas Plains , ’ Bentine announced on the first morning ( 28 March ) . |
| 25 | Rich raw smells of tar , rotting excrement , spices and brine rose up along with the sight of ship masts , looped sails , small boats beached on the first mud of the receding tide , sailors in striped breeches and greasy caps leaning on the wooden railings , others arm in arm on their way to the taverns , piled kegs and crates , winches , the last of the horsedrawn sleds and — a gathering knot of people beyond a bonded warehouse . |
| 26 | I know when Brian went on the first Queen tour to America he hated it , so he had stabilisers made to give him 220v . |
| 27 | The moment I heard there were rumours that the PLO is willing to be more moderate , that 's when I went on the first plane and went to Tunis . |
| 28 | So much that she fell on the first excuse to put some distance between them . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The pupils were too depressed to bother sneaking into each other 's rooms for a chat as they usually did on the first night back at school . |