Example sentences of "on [pron] first [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my first visit Amman was an overgrown , untidy Arab village , surrounded by seven hills . |
| 2 | ‘ A Miss Dorothy Tuckey on my first training course . |
| 3 | Commenting on its first quarter figures ( see page seven ) , Unisys Corp says that , as it expected , continued revenue growth in the US commercial information systems market was offset by continued market weakness in Europe and Japan and unfavourable currency translations . |
| 4 | Look at Tradecraft , for example , who recently raised £300,000 on its first share issue , and then £1,000,000 on its second . ’ |
| 5 | On its first survey orbits , IRAS scanned our nearest galaxy , the Large Magellanic Cloud . |
| 6 | Standard car 40 on its first Fleetwood trip in 1959 , with the old Bold Street depot in the background . |
| 7 | Next morning , Woolley briefed the squadron on its first combat patrol . |
| 8 | The CPNI was not instrumental in creating NICRA but it was well represented on its first executive committee : Noel Harris of AUEW TASS , a CPNI member , was the first chairman ; Derek Peters of the CPNI was secretary ; and Betty Sinclair of the Belfast trades council was elected to the committee . |
| 9 | The break-up of her former group , the medium-profile Blake Babies , has left her free and unshackled on her first solo LP ( the riveting ‘ Hey Babe ’ ) to create music that shares subject matter with ‘ soul ’ — love viewed from every possible angle — but blossoms with a fiery individuality born from experience . |
| 10 | On her first day Tess had to take some of the chickens to show to their owner . |
| 11 | With work on her first feature film The Delinquents behind her and a new collection of singles successfully launched with ‘ Hand On Your Heart ’ topping charts all over the globe , Kylie herself was busy adding her own mystique to this great debate . |
| 12 | On her first opening day , 300 visitors made their way up the farm 's single-track drive . |
| 13 | They were at Klosters , snapping Fergie on her first skiing holiday of the season . |
| 14 | She approved of the crispness of the linen coifs of nuns , the ironed cleanness of her mother 's Sunday gloves , the drift of long tulle skirts that had stirred about her on her First Communion day , the soft transparency of the veils of village brides . |
| 15 | As I was unable to see how I could realistically expect students to take responsibility for classes after only six weeks in the School of Education , I decided ( after much self doubt ) to put the students on their first teaching practice in the fourth and fifth years of schools offering our joint GCE O Level/CSE French for Communication syllabus where they would be expected to work with the teachers in a variety of roles . |
| 16 | The most common mistake that bands make on their first recording session is to be underrehearsed . |
| 17 | Tom Hodgson , who led out Luton on their first Wembley appearance in the 1959 FA Cup final , has died in retirement in Hampshire . |
| 18 | Tom Hodgson , who led out Luton on their first Wembley appearance in the 1959 FA Cup final , has died in retirement in Hampshire . |
| 19 | Following their UK gigs , the band embark on their first US tour in December . |
| 20 | He saw clips of them with their heads together across a table in a wine bar , or making love in the garden of a cottage they had once rented in the New Forest , or building a sand castle with the twins on their first family holiday together at the seaside . |
| 21 | On the walls are paintings by Tabboo , the artist friend who did the lettering on their first LP sleeve . |
| 22 | On their first Christmas Day without mum , Princes William and Harry proved that they have learned the first lesson of royal duty . |
| 23 | When he returns to the US he will start work on his first film script , which he describes as an allegorical tale about ELVIS PRESLEY actually being alive . |
| 24 | After taking heavy Widnes pressure in the early stages , Salford replied with two penalties from Birkett and a try from Fox on his First Division debut in the 19th minute , which Birkett converted . |
| 25 | More significant still , Cnut 's crown in the New Minster drawing is a lily crown , very similar to that which appears on his first Quatrefoil coin type , but with an additional arched bar spanning its centre . |
| 26 | He worked on the buses when he arrived , showed me a canopy in front of a hotel that he 'd brought down on his first solo drive . |
| 27 | In 1979 , when Lloyd Webber severed his links with both Tim Rice and his previous producers , the Robert Stigwood Organisation , to embark on his first solo venture , Cats , potential backers were suddenly thin on the ground . |
| 28 | It is obvious that a major accident to a wide-bodied jet engaged in public transport is going to demand a far greater investigative effort than an accident in which a pupil on his first solo flight makes a heavy landing and breaks a nose-wheel . |
| 29 | THE REPLACEMENTS ' singer Paul Westerberg is about to begin work on his first solo LP , and has indicated that he has no plans to return to the group . |
| 30 | Now he could concentrate on his first television situation comedy series . |