Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] on [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the white painted bookcases which reached to the ceiling were filled only on the first two shelves with incongruous modern volumes with used-looking dust-covers . |
| 2 | The working leg is thrust outwards on the first beat of a bar , heels click and stamp to accent the appropriate beats . |
| 3 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 4 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 5 | I would buy the parchment and arrange its transport down to the wharves and we concluded that , if we sold the wine brought back on the first voyage , we would make a profit . |
| 6 | can we accept the recommendation as laid out on the first page of the |
| 7 | It is time to recognise the last three phases — currently we have concentrated primarily on the first phase . |
| 8 | Lambert nursed his coughing , shaking aircraft back to the field and thankfully touched down on the first available yard of turf . |
| 9 | Places were limited , participation was determined individually on a first come , first served basis , and the centre 's main client group , elderly disabled people , were given priority . |
| 10 | Judgment was reserved yesterday on the first legal moves to pin the blame for the contamination . |
| 11 | I We 'd talked about it and said Well , we 're not going to get married whilst war 's on , as er probably the generation before , had said in nineteen fourteen , and er we got married eventually on the first of December , nineteen forty . |
| 12 | The first ‘ official ’ race was held in 1972 and it has been held annually on the first or second Wednesday in May ever since . |