Example sentences of "on [adj] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this in mind , Botham chose to field first , only for Greenidge and Haynes to put on 168 for the first wicket . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | McFarland and Adams got the visitors off to a good start putting on 35 for the first wicket . |
| 5 | He and Washbrook once put on 350 for the first wicket against Sussex . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |