Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ltd were on the first floor of a substantial building , near Allhallows Church . |
| 2 | Nigel 's arrangement of the white slaves , as he called the domestic machines , positioned as they were on the first floor , entailed many journeys upstairs to inspect their progress . |
| 3 | The Duke 's rooms were on the first floor , in the new buildings of the castle , and Antoinette 's room was on the same floor . |
| 4 | George 's rooms were on the first floor ; they had the traditional stolidity of a steak and kidney pie and were much the same colour . |
| 5 | The Rye are proof that this idea works : they were on the first tour two years ago and are now probably the hottest property in the region . |
| 6 | The first two rounds were on the first day of the Championships , and I cruised them comfortably . |
| 7 | Now The Trust Deed and rules were asked for prior to their consent and the company made it clear that they would not be available until after the new scheme commenced on the first October nineteen ninety and indeed it was some eight days later on the ninth October at er Trustee meeting that the company presented the Trust Deed and rules and it was resolved that the Committee of Management would er transfer all the close scheme members er into the new nineteen ninety scheme and er the same Trustees appointed themselves er Trustees of the nineteen ninety scheme and one hour later were the presentation of a draft deed amending the British Steel Pension Scheme and a draft interim Trust Deed establishing the British Steel Pension Scheme in nineteen ninety and a draft Trust Deed and rules of the British Steel Pension Scheme of nineteen ninety were tabled for noting ; and those very Trustees that were on the first meeting agreed to transfer the assets to the new scheme , set as Trustees of the new scheme one hour later , accepted the assets and er without er seeking either legal or actuarial advice and in this case er Watsons were advisors to the company to the old scheme Trustees and to the new scheme Trustees . |
| 8 | His father was on the first lifeboat . |
| 9 | Gordon was on the first ascent of Diagonal with Birtwistle , and also climbed with Menlove Edwards . |
| 10 | Clive Barnes 's room was on the first floor , overlooking the churchyard . |
| 11 | It was on the first floor of a late Victorian house in a road which was not too far from Craven Cottage . |
| 12 | The Headmaster 's Study was on the first floor next to Four . |
| 13 | Her room was on the first floor , at the back , opposite the top of the kitchen stairs . |
| 14 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 15 | Room 12 was on the first floor . |
| 16 | His room was on the first floor of the college , looking down into a narrow street that ran beside it . |
| 17 | The sitting-room was on the first floor , above the garage , with a picture window overlooking a small park . |
| 18 | My first dream I can ever remember was on the first day of exams . |
| 19 | That was on the first day . |
| 20 | ‘ It was on the first night that Lesley-Jane told you she was pregnant . ’ |
| 21 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 22 | He made an immediate impression and by 4 December 1640 was on the first committee . |
| 23 | The household chaplain , whose role it was to minister to the spiritual needs of princely families , could also produce letters , such as those written for Stephen of Blois to his wife Adela while he was on the First Crusade ; or charters , like those produced for the post-Conquest dukes of Normandy . |
| 24 | His father was on the first fire-engine to arrive and Raymond was on the second . |
| 25 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 26 | But as soon as his foot was on the first step of the stairs , Charles heard the fatal summons over the loudspeaker . |
| 27 | He was on the first train into London and founded the earliest Railway Magazine in 1835 . |
| 28 | It was on the first tape . |