Example sentences of "on the first night " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel Robson , tall and pompous , became wonderfully enraged as the Mayor ; while Juliet Booth , ill on the first night at York but now displaying her fine voice and musicianship to the full , mixed honey and gall as the spoiled and fickle Arminda . |
| 2 | The Russian heroic tenor , Alexei Steblianko , from the Kirov in Leningrad is the least comfortable with a French accent , but then on the first night he was battling with a throat infection . |
| 3 | The Russian heroic tenor , Alexei Steblianko , from the Kirov in Leningrad is the least comfortable with a French accent , but then on the first night he was battling with a throat infection . |
| 4 | But on the first night at least Richard Hague 's careful Figaro seemed only part way there , tentative and restrained in his guile . |
| 5 | The musical opens with her trial ; in the theatre on the first night , she was in tears . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The rats , in a panic on the first night , hit the barricade and swarmed everywhere , including some spots where they were definitely not welcome . |
| 8 | On the first night , most of them were watching Bionic Showdown : The Bionic Woman Meets the Six-Million Dollar Man on a rival channel . |
| 9 | To sit in a plush cinema with Anna , Mama and Konstantin on the first night , watching the titles unroll ! |
| 10 | On the first night not a soul could be induced to enter it . ’ |
| 11 | Blandine de Bayser , who sold nine drawings on the first night , had a delicate portrait of a woman attributed to the 17th century painter Franois Quesnel at £10,000 , and a fine Tiepolo of the Holy family from the Orloff collection at £90,000 . |
| 12 | On the first night , with the arrival of the various groups , some time will be spent in introducing the participants and getting them to describe their experiences . |
| 13 | Apparently on the first night of the opera , contrary to the usual customs , the audience insisted on hearing one of Bernasconi 's arias repeated , and many arias were applauded . |
| 14 | On the first night , three members of the squad , the goalkeeper Alan Rough and the Rangers pair Derek Johnstone and Sandy Jardine , left the camp to visit a local casino . |
| 15 | On the first night the effect should be specially pronounced . |
| 16 | Breeze saw that they were her favourite kind , and remembered then that this had always been a little ritual — chocolates on the first night of the holidays . |
| 17 | She thought with a rush of gratitude of the letter she had had from Gay , in answer to the one she had written on the first night of the holidays . |
| 18 | When Oh Calcutta ! opened in Stockholm there was more of a stir caused outside the theatre on the first night than on the stage , when six members of the audience turned Up stark naked to take their seats . |
| 19 | Once in a while , maybe on the first night of a stint somewhere , and we 've got the time , we might just do a brief check of some songs . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Certainly , the crowd at Middlesbrough 's Arena seem to be learning fast : on the first night , most stayed in the rave room upstairs . |
| 22 | And while we 're on the subject of outrage , those sexy boys from FABULOUS had a curious welcoming committee in Bournemouth on the first night of their current tour . |
| 23 | Support on the first night is provided by Dutch quartet Bettie Serveert , while Kristin Hersh plays an acoustic set the following evening . |
| 24 | On the first night of Camelot on Broadway , on December 3rd , 1960 , I went into his crowded dressing room after the performance and he greeted me with : ‘ Well , I showed you , did n't I ? ’ |
| 25 | It 's now available for only seven shows out of twenty seven in the next programme and only on the first night of each show and only at a cost of two pounds and these are the audience of tomorrow as I wrote to you Mr you neglect these people at your peril why 've you changed the scheme ? |
| 26 | I stayed in hotels to begin with and when I finally moved into a flat , on the first night a rat ran across my chest . |
| 27 | Experiments assessing the difference between the sleep achieved on successive nights in the laboratory have shown that there is indeed some evidence of difficulty in getting to sleep on the first night . |
| 28 | William Dement woke six subjects in this systematic way over a period of six nights , and found that on the first night they did seem to " start all over again " whenever properly woken , so that by the end of the night they had achieved a good deal of slow wave sleep and very little REM sleep . |
| 29 | While it may be virtually abolished on the first night by as few as four or five wakenings , on subsequent nights REM " pressure " increases , and successively more wakenings are required , as the number of times REM sleep is initiated is increased . |
| 30 | On the first night Rose Lipman came backstage as usual to wish the cast good luck . |