Example sentences of "on [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 Watched by encouragingly large crowds — a total of 57,684 , with over 13,000 on each of the first three days — this match was a reminder of much that is good about Test cricket .
2 The top lifts at Cairngorm were opened on Friday 23 November with 300–400 earlybirds turning up on each of the first few days .
3 The participants had decided to walk 20km on each of the first two days and finish by walking 10km on the last day .
4 The fourth tier was originally in wood and was rebuilt in stone in the third century A.D. Between the three-quarter columns are arched openings , 80 on each of the first three storeys , and in each was placed a statue .
5 With this in mind , Botham chose to field first , only for Greenidge and Haynes to put on 168 for the first wicket .
6 Gooch and Atherton put on 168 in the first innings
7 When Haynes and Best put on 113 for the first wicket it all became academic , the main interest being whether Best would get his hundred .
8 Bull has already revealed details of its Integrated Systems Management effort , based around the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Management Environment , and is now working on some of the first practical applications to run on top .
9 Adrian Griffith ( 34 ) and David Wright ( 26 ) put on 45 for the first wicket , before Barry Metcalf ( 23 not out ) and Steve Wundke ( 33 not out ) saw Chester home .
10 Faldo also made birdies at both the 15th and 16th and putted better than he had on either of the first two days .
11 Chasing a target of 182 off 45 overs , New Zealand finished on 164–7 in the first of two one-day warm-up games before the first Test which starts in Colombo on Friday .
12 McFarland and Adams got the visitors off to a good start putting on 35 for the first wicket .
13 He and Washbrook once put on 350 for the first wicket against Sussex .
14 There was no hint that Waringstown would be kept down to such a moderate total when Shane Harrison and Brian Sturgeon put on 46 for the first wicket .
15 John Clinch ( 83 ) and Paul Harris ( 82 ) put on 170 for the first wicket against Stowmarket , who were skittled out for only 85 thanks to a burst of 4–1–7–5 by Richard Pybus .
16 Gooch became the only player to score a fifty in the match and put on 95 for the first wicket with Boycott , but when the fifth wicket fell just before tea they were only 72 ahead and could still have lost .
17 When , in the first Test at Trent Bridge , Gooch and Broad put on 125 for the first wicket the smiles were widening all the time ; when the last wicket fell with just 245 on the board we knew where we really were .
18 On 26 March the junta decided that the invasion would take place on one of the first three days in April .
19 on one of the first days jostein flo came over to sheffield leeds was on the telly playing live and jostein and some other sheffield utd players was watching .
20 I remember going on one of the first ones with the boss .
21 After Greenidge and Haynes had put on 96 for the first wicket , Fraser had Greenidge lbw ; immediately after the interval Haynes hit Malcolm 's second ball for four , only for the next ball to leap up at him and give Lamb an easy catch .
22 474 set England a stiff target but the pitch was less malicious than the earlier ones and Gooch and Slack put on 127 for the first wicket .
23 When the county followed on 179 behind Surrey , he and T.C. O'Brien put on 228 for the first wicket to create a win by 79 runs .
24 Erm cabling is a problem on most of the first floor
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