Example sentences of "on the [noun] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first signs of rust came on the day the first battalion of the tartan army arrived in Cordoba . |
| 2 | Now the important thing about this document is that you 'll receive it on the day the first day of your assignment . |
| 3 | Hatton got knocked on the head the first time but the second time he was n't hurt , only tied up . ’ |
| 4 | The old craft trades were on the whole the first to organize trade societies , giving the labour movement in Scotland a particular character and ( some have argued ) a particular ideology in which the influence of thrift , temperance and respectability was very marked . |
| 5 | She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her . |
| 6 | Down on the ground the first thing to be heard is a distant squeal , and a sharp-sighted man might just discern a black dot like a bird high in the sky . |
| 7 | ‘ I set your name up on the account the first time we met . |
| 8 | On the landing the first door on the left opened up a walk-in cupboard . |