Example sentences of "was on [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His father was on the first lifeboat . |
| 2 | Gordon was on the first ascent of Diagonal with Birtwistle , and also climbed with Menlove Edwards . |
| 3 | Clive Barnes 's room was on the first floor , overlooking the churchyard . |
| 4 | It was on the first floor of a late Victorian house in a road which was not too far from Craven Cottage . |
| 5 | The Headmaster 's Study was on the first floor next to Four . |
| 6 | Her room was on the first floor , at the back , opposite the top of the kitchen stairs . |
| 7 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 8 | Room 12 was on the first floor . |
| 9 | His room was on the first floor of the college , looking down into a narrow street that ran beside it . |
| 10 | The sitting-room was on the first floor , above the garage , with a picture window overlooking a small park . |
| 11 | My first dream I can ever remember was on the first day of exams . |
| 12 | That was on the first day . |
| 13 | ‘ It was on the first night that Lesley-Jane told you she was pregnant . ’ |
| 14 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 15 | He made an immediate impression and by 4 December 1640 was on the first committee . |
| 16 | The household chaplain , whose role it was to minister to the spiritual needs of princely families , could also produce letters , such as those written for Stephen of Blois to his wife Adela while he was on the First Crusade ; or charters , like those produced for the post-Conquest dukes of Normandy . |
| 17 | His father was on the first fire-engine to arrive and Raymond was on the second . |
| 18 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 19 | But as soon as his foot was on the first step of the stairs , Charles heard the fatal summons over the loudspeaker . |
| 20 | He was on the first train into London and founded the earliest Railway Magazine in 1835 . |
| 21 | It was on the first tape . |