Example sentences of "on the first [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fighting erupted in the chamber on the first day when the eight delegates from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) raised a banner protesting against " constitutional blackmail " by the Assembly 's elderly members . |
| 2 | When I went to Asdas on the first day when he was telling me about erm sales , loads of people erm |
| 3 | The first secretary , Miss Coldharbour , Canon Wheeler 's immaculate conception , as Ian called her , had on the first day coolly returned Julia 's first batch of letters with mistakes marked in a soft shorthand pencil which proved difficult to eradicate cleanly with a rubber when the corrections had been made . |
| 4 | Most of us experience ‘ Monday morning blues ’ — the feeling of tiredness and low spirits on the first day back at work after the weekend of rest . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't want to see him , ’ Anna said , remembering her inoculation on the first day back , and how it had hurt . |
| 6 | The tone was set on the first day out of London when Kinnock confided to a class of six-year-olds at Staple Hill primary school in Kingswood , Bristol : ‘ Glenys is a teacher in real life : this is just pretending . ’ |
| 7 | I have , in any case , written on the first part elsewhere . |
| 8 | So can we just ignore that for the moment and focus on the first sheet deliberately |
| 9 | The proportions on the first trip across to the island had been strange — almost no cars , few locals and 2,000 passengers in guernseys with kit bags , carrying damp cardboard boxes of food . |
| 10 | In the House of Commons the bulk of the Labour opposition ( as well as the Liberal Democrats ) voted with the government , but on the first occasion over 50 and on the second over 30 Labour members critical of the bipartisan approach agreed by their party 's leadership voted against ( resulting in resignations from their posts by three frontbench spokespersons ) . |
| 11 | A fine barn lies beyond and the wool room was in the house on the first floor away from the gallery . |
| 12 | On the first night not a soul could be induced to enter it . ’ |
| 13 | On the first night out from Dakar , 12-year-old Faisal wandered the deck restlessly . |
| 14 | The pupils were too depressed to bother sneaking into each other 's rooms for a chat as they usually did on the first night back at school . |
| 15 | He 's on the first team today . |
| 16 | Perhaps there ought to be an intelligence extradition agreement that all defectors are immediately put on the first aircraft back home . |
| 17 | The votes apportioned as provided in paragraph ( b ) above shall be totalled and the candidate receiving more than half of the votes shall be declared elected and if no candidate reaches this total on the first ballot further ballots should be held on an elimination basis . |
| 18 | no it 's not page fifty six in here on the first page where it says bargain cars |
| 19 | tends to be a little bit on the first page then it goes onto pages like two , three , all different pages with small sections |
| 20 | On the first morning when she went with Clare the place was very quiet . |
| 21 | It felt it on the first morning when it came in and I sat on it , I thought well I 'm sure it did n't feel like the one we tried in the shop did n't feel like this but |
| 22 | On the first tee yesterday Daly made some sort of remark and smiled . |
| 23 | On the first line out of Bombay , Byculla station was used primarily by Europeans , Bori Bunder by Indians , and both were modest wooden structures . |
| 24 | The horse is leaving ‘ home ’ so make sure that he is going forward and is concentrating on the first fence ahead . |
| 25 | The standout tracks on the first disc however , are those where he takes out with bluesmen Buddy Guy and Robert Cray and piano man Johnnie Johnston . |
| 26 | A presidential candidate could win election on the first round only by gaining an absolute majority of the votes cast by at least one-quarter of registered voters ; otherwise the election would be decided by a second-round run-off between the two candidates with most votes . |
| 27 | In voting for councillors , 38,946 were elected on the first round out of the total of 40,178 , with the NSF winning 15,670 seats ( 40.24 per cent ) , the Democratic Convention 8,088 ( 20.77 per cent ) , the ADP 4,532 ( 11.64 per cent ) , the HDUR 2,606 ( 6.69 per cent ) , independents 2,425 ( 6.23 per cent ) , and the RNUP 1,508 ( 3.87 per cent ) . |
| 28 | And then do it on the first time well if he wanted , he do n't have to go . |
| 29 | ‘ He hopped on the first plane back to Germany . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Go home on the first flight out of here . |