Example sentences of "on [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You remember I said to you that the only thing any witnesses could agree on about the first bloke who killed himself was his staring eyes ? ’ |
| 2 | They come round at the interval and say , ‘ Was Ruby on for the first half ? ’ and I say , ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 3 | The specifications of November 1939 became a reality just 43 years ago , when a CW pump evacuated model with sealing wax joints was switched on for the first time at the end of February 1940 , and operated successfully . |
| 4 | As a climax , you could arrange for some of the room lights to be switched off one by one before the tree-lights are switched on for the first time ( test them first ! ) . |
| 5 | For instance , a LAN operating system like NetWare or an appropriate environment like Windows for Workgroups can be largely pre-installed at the factory , with the remaining configuration being done via a fill-in-the-blanks , sign-on display when the thing 's switched on for the first time . |
| 6 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 7 | Andy Mutch has been trying his new kit on for the first time today . |
| 8 | There was one in this show when Charity Barnum 's understudy went on for the first time . |
| 9 | on for the first time yesterday |
| 10 | Negotiations over the final contract were still going on as the first DinDisc releases appeared . |
| 11 | The headstock is scarfed on behind the first fret ( as , in fact , were those on original Goodfellow basses ) . |
| 12 | It occurs in a number of quite precise and extremely crucial contexts , from the Maccabean regime on into the first century A.D. Thus the High Priest at the period of Judas Maccabeus ( who died in 160 B.C. ) is referred to as a Zaddik and described as being ‘ a zealot for the law ’ . |
| 13 | Now a year on from the first rape , police are taking steps to protect women as the nights close in . |
| 14 | Three years on from the first album , Neneh admits that ‘ the till bells are ringing empty . |
| 15 | Er , thank you , Mr Chairman , to me erm , this went on from the first paper that chose the effects of the food and management of the er , the fire local services , whereas carried through and it will be interesting to see next year er what the situation is , in order to the position of the as it were , this year , benefit of everything that has previous administration . |
| 16 | They follow on from the first set and the opening balances are already entered . |
| 17 | But I mean would that is the the the sort of the thing I would like to put an em emphasis on in the first half of the term . |
| 18 | Dyspnoea ; they wake from sleep with a sense of suffocation , a sense of choking which can come on in the first sleep , a sense of strangulation when lying and especially when anything is around the neck ; neck is very sensitive to touch . |
| 19 | for learning to gallop on in the first size |
| 20 | ‘ But after what went on in the first leg , I hope we get a referee who will be strong enough to stamp out any foul play . |
| 21 | He toured Namibia with Ireland two seasons ago , coming on in the First Test as a replacement for Simon Geoghegan . |
| 22 | Leopold realised very early on in the first visit that their money would not be made by giving public performances , |
| 23 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 24 | This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place . |
| 25 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 26 | She wished she had not put the lamp on in the first place because she was sure he would be able to fathom out how she felt . |
| 27 | It was also based on the even worse assumption that the actual level of income support in April 1990 was sufficient for people to live on in the first place . |
| 28 | Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place ! |
| 29 | I do n't quite know why they put that edge on in the first place . |
| 30 | 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 . |