Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] on the first " in BNC.

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1 Gargy Patel looks back on the first twelve months of the motorway completed after two decades of delay .
2 The Association meets regularly on the first Friday of each month , at the RE Centre , when mass is said by our chaplain , Fr.
3 Spenser dwells longest on the first , revealing it filled with ‘ infinite shapes of things dispersed thin' ( II , IX , 50 ) .
4 Mansell 's Newman-Haas team-mate Mario Andretti lines up on the first row after finishing second fastest qualifier with 223.414 mph .
5 Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day .
6 There was a lot of noise ; people were getting bets down on the first pair .
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