Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pron] first day " in BNC.
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| 1 | D Company had spent the previous day digging a line of trenches to cover a series of vehicle checkpoints on all the main roads , and were just settling down for their first day 's occupation of the trenches . |
| 2 | I am bowled over by my first day at school ; there are scores of us sitting at long bench desks in a vast wooden hut . |
| 3 | Jim went off for his first day at work in a mood of tender incredulity , still unable to stop smiling . |
| 4 | She had watched from the window as they walked down the jetty , anxious as a mother sending her children off on their first day at school . |
| 5 | True the first formers had had to go to bed an hour earlier , but they all voted it was worth it , Gwendoline felt vicious about the whole affair , she 'd determining not to be put off by her first day there . |
| 6 | I went into the job feeling confident enough , but the wind that got up for our first day soon knocked that out of me . |