Example sentences of "and on the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the first day of the blizzard 30 of my sheep got buried and on the first night my kennel runs were covered with six feet of snow , making it difficult , if not impossible , to get the dogs out . |
| 2 | For example , suppose the PB was ‘ Is violent towards baby sister ’ and on the first baseline this was measured as number of ‘ hitting ’ incidents . |
| 3 | And on the first day of his eight-day tour of the Greek Islands with wife Lady Mills , it ‘ went ’ again and left him unable to walk . |
| 4 | On the ground floor there is a newly-equipped kitchen/dining room , lounge with comfortable furniture , one single bedroom and bathroom , and on the first floor there is a double and a twin bedroom and a bathroom . |
| 5 | Experiments with captive eels suggest that they can navigate by the stars , just as some migrating birds can , and on the first stages of their journey away from Europe , when they swim near the surface , this may be the way they guide themselves . |
| 6 | The plaintiff objected to paying the tolls , and on the first occasion when he did so the owner seized his goods . |
| 7 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
| 8 | It is a small town , with a textile industry , and on the first Sunday of May each year it is the scene of the meeting of the Landsgemeinde — the formal assembly of all vote holding citizens of the canton and its law-giving governing body . |
| 9 | ‘ Then the play opened and on the first Friday it looked set to be the day . |
| 10 | His reputation as an architect was based notably on St George 's church , completed in 1734 on the site of Liverpool 's castle , and on the first architectural stone-fronted dwelling house in Liverpool in Hanover Street , c .1740 . |
| 11 | When I opened the Bible to see if it was damaged , I found that wherever there was an empty page , or half a page , someone had written on it , and on the first page was written ‘ Catherine Earnshaw 's diary , 1776 ’ . |
| 12 | On both his visits to Jerusalem and on the first visit to Amman Baker also met with Palestinian representatives , and he held talks with the main Palestinian pre-conference negotiators , Hanan Ashrawi , Faisal al-Husseini , Zakaria al-Agha and Sari Nusseibah , in Washington on Oct. 10-11 . |
| 13 | Steam sprinklers were introduced and on the first day of their operation , they successfully doused another fire that would have probably removed the remainder of the factory had it taken hold . |
| 14 | And on the first , on the first of October , the tops of the mountains appeared . |
| 15 | Tylers the Company that won the tender when Crawley District Council put it out of a bunch of gangsters and on the first of February Crawley District Council awarded under C C T their refuse contract to Tylers as the cheapest tenderer . |