Example sentences of "on [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place .
32 This poem is about the death of one of Wilfred Owen 's fellow soldiers and this is focused on in the first stanza .
33 Move the cursor to a blank line or on to the first character of the text to follow the blank lines
34 ‘ And now , on to the first part of our programme . ’
35 ‘ I 've only five horses here at the moment , ’ Tom said moving on to the first loose-box .
36 Seve hit a 3-wood and hooked it miles , nearly on to the first green .
37 I sat unmoving , adding up all the factors over and over , getting the same answer , while Posi took us up into Highlight and on to the first Netline of our route .
38 Slowly , with her fists clenched tightly and her lips pursed , she put one foot and then the other out on to the first stepping-stone .
39 As he walked on to the first tee he could n't get any proper words out at all , and so I was frightened to speak to him in case he thought I was teasing him .
40 Well , we really got on well together , and when the bell rang for the first round we went on to the first tee and an official is there to check out which clubs and what type of ball Butch is using .
41 Tom turns his head in embarrassment and has it explained to him that his regular caddie has gone back to Orville Moody , and I 'm his new one , so he says , ‘ OK ’ , and walks on to the first tee .
42 The eminent Spaniard took 7 at the first hole of the Novo Sancti Petri course , of which he is the architect , and finished his first round ten shots behind Ireland 's Des Smyth who had not seen the course until he stepped on to the first tee .
43 Aggie pointed to the seat at the front of the cart , and immediately Millie had done so , she gripped the iron frame of the seat , heaved herself on to the first step , then , almost with a lunge , on to the seat ; but this time she did n't say , as she usually did , ‘ I 'm past this ; I 'll sit on the back in future and you 'll take him , ’ but she jerked the reins and put the pony into a trot .
44 A blur of lights as a quick thinking cameraman locks on to the first Patriot missile fired in war .
45 Take the second stitch and place it on to the first needle .
46 Plans agreed on by the first meeting included a shopping trip to Holland to visit a shop which sells outsize jeans and sweat-shirts and another to Germany to a shop which claims to sell the biggest size shoes in the world .
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