Example sentences of "of [pron] first day " in BNC.

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1 Only three could read , and none could write , so at the end of my first day I felt quite depressed at the thought of the hard work ahead of me .
2 Most people have vivid memories of their first day at school and their childhood home .
3 At first they had no joy and , on the evening of their first day out of London , went to bed so weary they could scarce speak to each other .
4 Now , as they dry and become rigid , the insect slowly moves them apart to show the world for the first time the unblemished perfection of its shimmering colours and awaits the dawn of its first day .
5 It grew rapidly , however : the 120 employees of its first days had become 261 at the accession of Catherine II in 1762 .
6 Kelly was still upset and dazed by the events of her first day back at work .
7 THE ORPHAN smuggled out of war-torn Bosnia by TV newsman Michael Nicholson spoke of her first days at a British school yesterday and declared : ‘ It is good . ’
8 Over the years , he told me on many occasions of his first day in business at Wilton when a young man .
9 It was the ruminations of the mother of a Down 's Syndrome child the morning of his first day at school .
10 ‘ I 'm sorry , I 'm really making a mess of your first day of term .
11 The evening of our first day at Orange was spent folding our clothes and cleaning the rooms in preparation for ‘ appel ’ at 10.00 pm .
12 At Enfield , the destination of our first day 's march , we were met and accompanied for the last mile by a procession of Catholic parishioners .
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