Example sentences of "on [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | You remember I said to you that the only thing any witnesses could agree on about the first bloke who killed himself was his staring eyes ? ’ |
| 2 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 4 | The specifications of November 1939 became a reality just 43 years ago , when a CW pump evacuated model with sealing wax joints was switched on for the first time at the end of February 1940 , and operated successfully . |
| 5 | As a climax , you could arrange for some of the room lights to be switched off one by one before the tree-lights are switched on for the first time ( test them first ! ) . |
| 6 | They come round at the interval and say , ‘ Was Ruby on for the first half ? ’ and I say , ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 7 | For instance , a LAN operating system like NetWare or an appropriate environment like Windows for Workgroups can be largely pre-installed at the factory , with the remaining configuration being done via a fill-in-the-blanks , sign-on display when the thing 's switched on for the first time . |
| 8 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 9 | Andy Mutch has been trying his new kit on for the first time today . |
| 10 | There was one in this show when Charity Barnum 's understudy went on for the first time . |
| 11 | on for the first time yesterday |
| 12 | Rhos Quarry closed in 1953 — a godsend to Evan 's health as well as his career — and after working briefly in the forestry plantations he was taken on as the first National Nature Reserve Warden of the newly-formed Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 13 | Negotiations over the final contract were still going on as the first DinDisc releases appeared . |
| 14 | The headstock is scarfed on behind the first fret ( as , in fact , were those on original Goodfellow basses ) . |
| 15 | It occurs in a number of quite precise and extremely crucial contexts , from the Maccabean regime on into the first century A.D. Thus the High Priest at the period of Judas Maccabeus ( who died in 160 B.C. ) is referred to as a Zaddik and described as being ‘ a zealot for the law ’ . |
| 16 | It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in . |
| 17 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 18 | Three years on from the first album , Neneh admits that ‘ the till bells are ringing empty . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) The second point follows on from the first . |
| 20 | The second change follows on from the first . |
| 21 | Er Nick carry on from the first six months after Oliver Twist you can read |
| 22 | And , following on from the first two , how are the Arab societies in whose region the war is being fought affected ? |
| 23 | They follow on from the first set and the opening balances are already entered . |
| 24 | Er , thank you , Mr Chairman , to me erm , this went on from the first paper that chose the effects of the food and management of the er , the fire local services , whereas carried through and it will be interesting to see next year er what the situation is , in order to the position of the as it were , this year , benefit of everything that has previous administration . |
| 25 | Now a year on from the first rape , police are taking steps to protect women as the nights close in . |
| 26 | Leopold realised very early on in the first visit that their money would not be made by giving public performances , |
| 27 | Dyspnoea ; they wake from sleep with a sense of suffocation , a sense of choking which can come on in the first sleep , a sense of strangulation when lying and especially when anything is around the neck ; neck is very sensitive to touch . |
| 28 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 29 | ‘ But after what went on in the first leg , I hope we get a referee who will be strong enough to stamp out any foul play . |
| 30 | This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place . |