Example sentences of "on our first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Then take a limiting case : if nobody but the original painter or painters of the great roof bison of Altamira had ever seen this work ( and comparable work may still be lying undiscovered ) , would any of us wish , on our first sight of it , to deny its status as art because it had not been consciously exhibited ? |
2 | ‘ We made a £1,000 profit on our first issue , ’ he says . |
3 | On our first call , from a dreadlocked Rastaman , we are faced with a clapped-out Mini Clubman . |
4 | On our first trip together we had visited a café of a very old-fashioned kind , called Cafeteria Varela Reposteria in Preciados , and I had noted an inscription saying En este lugar escribiõ sus mejores versos el gran poeta Emilio Carrere 1881–1947 . |
5 | ‘ On our first date we were driving through the countryside when we spotted some sheep out in a field . |
6 | On our first night in France , exhausted after a ferry crossing , we just happened to fetch up in this little village on the Loire , in a hotel on the second floor of a hotel where , indeed , we opened the shutters — and we were looking at the west end of the Romanesque Abbey of St Benoit sur Loire , which is a most striking church where the remains of the saint are interred in a little casket in the crypt . |
7 | On our first night at Orange we were up until 10.00 pm when we were ordered to put on our brown nylon pyjamas with their maroon piping . |
8 | We arrived quite late on our first night and , when I went downstairs the next morning the waitress showed us to our table and said : ‘ Good morning , I think you were arriving at eleven o'clock last night . ’ |
9 | ‘ Strange , ’ I muttered to Benjamin as we stayed at a tavern on our first night out of Calais . |
10 | I parked the jeep under a tree and then , looking at my watch , I decided that as I had a couple of hours to spare I would take a walk across to the other bridge where I had noticed a café on our first day into Normandy . |
11 | On our first day we headed for that beautiful beach … but we did n't make it the temptation was too great to lounge by probably the largest and most stunning freshwater pool in the Canaries . |
12 | On our first day of trading we took £8.36 , which delighted us , but a local health nut had eaten the geraniums and it cost £6 to replace them . |
13 | That is what happened on our first day here . ’ |
14 | On our first day we sweated up the short scree slope to the foot of Middlefell Buttress , where our threesome roped up sound hemp . |
15 | At one end of the town was a bank where we went on our first day to change some money . |
16 | ‘ On our first day here you claimed you left Templecombe to ride your estates . |
17 | We were silly to take so much sun on our first day , but it was just too nice to go in . ’ |
18 | On our first visit I was left standing by these youngsters as one of them unearthed a good bag of finds ranging from Roman through to Georgian . |
19 | However , all this was in the future and hard to visualise on our first visit . |
20 | On our first meeting we had told Barney that we wanted to book the melin for ourselves for two weeks in June , and both it and the cottage for Christmas . |
21 | I had thought her , on our first meeting , prima donna material . |
22 | On our first meeting he thought I was a removal man working for Frank and Salome who had gone on to higher things ( mainly higher rates , mortgage repayments , so fourth , so fifth ) . |
23 | As show jumper and trainer John Bunyan told me on our first lesson ( see next month 's diary ) : ‘ You have to work out the difference between ‘ Ca n't ’ and ‘ Wo n't ’ . |
24 | On our first drizzly-day visit we stood open-mouthed under Previsla on the Tower of Friends — the Czechs have a great sense of humour . |
25 | ‘ I mean , on our first record , the press did n't hit on what we were trying to do , and then on this record they 're miles away again . |
26 | Can you remember when we went on our first aid course ? |
27 | ‘ All I said was we were lucky to get a two-seater on a plate on our first flight , ’ Callaghan protested . |
28 | Unfortunately , on our first evening , things were n't in good order . |
29 | ‘ On our first evening here , after you had all retired , Rachel allegedly left the hall to collect a manuscript . |