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 .
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