Example sentences of "on [pos pn] first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly children who start their primary school life in the late 1980s will enter a far richer classroom than did the children I was responsible for on my first day of teaching . |
| 2 | On my first day of school my mum kept trying to wake me but I pretended I was asleep because I was so nervous , eventually mum knew that I was playing a trick . |
| 3 | A graphic example was given me when on my first day of lecturing in a college of education a student came up and earnestly asked me : " Do you believe the Bible — yes or no ? " |
| 4 | On my first attempt of the Sound and Waves test I managed to score 20 percent , I then decided I had better read the tutorial before my second attempt in which I scored 60 percent . |
| 5 | The local radio had reported that someone had heard a skylark singing , and that in Lerwick a blackbird was already on its first clutch of catfood . |
| 6 | Towards the end of 1989 film and TV scripts were flooding in at an unprecedented rate , spurred on by her successful debut live tour , the incredible success , even by her standards , of her second album ‘ Enjoy Yourself ’ which entered the British LP charts at number one on its first day of release in October that year and the much-anticipated release of The Delinquents . |
| 7 | DRACULA earned £7 million on its first day of release in the US . |
| 8 | Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked . |
| 9 | On its first day of trading , the shop took 1.6 million roubles ( about US $2,600 ) . |
| 10 | Soon her hundred tons were brought to life as all eight sails pulled hard on her first tack of the season . |
| 11 | All her attention was on her first bite of bread which tasted as if it had come straight from Paradise . |
| 12 | The Marcus night junior , though at the start of her second year , was on her first spell of nights . |
| 13 | Ellie recovered her composure and understood perfectly well what Madame meant once she had tried on her first set of crepe de Chine camiknickers . |
| 14 | Her confidence , which had returned on her first view of the house , once more ebbed . |
| 15 | Holding , Garner and Gomes had retired and youngsters such as Ambrose , Hooper , Arthurton and Bishop were on their first tour of England . |
| 16 | After a scoreless first half , the Raiders took the lead on their first possession of the second when Jay Schroeder 's 73-yard pass found Mervyn Fernandez . |
| 17 | All income tax payers will pay the 20 per cent rate on their first £2,000 of taxable income . |
| 18 | On their first meal of monarch the jays were violently sick ; but after only a few trials they had learned not to eat monarchs , though they continued to eat other , tasty food . |
| 19 | Cook charted the coast of New Zealand on his first voyage of exploration , 1768–71 . |
| 20 | Out of a thousand possible illustrations of this point one might cite the testimony of William Smith the nineteenth-century publisher , on his first reading of the manuscript of Charlotte Bronte 's Jane Eyre . |
| 21 | One teacher described to a group how on his first day of teaching he faced his class of first-year juniors thinking " Reading ? |
| 22 | On his first day of arrival he was told the authorities had closed EuroDisney down and when he asked why , he was told someone had reported to the authorities that a six foot mouse was walking round the day before . |
| 23 | The appalling hardship , primitive conditions , tremendous heat on the exposed rocky outcrop , and the omnipresent spice of danger which he encountered on his first experience of active service , appealed to the adventurous and the Spartan in Leslie , and salved the conscience that had irked him during his long training and frustrating inactivity at home . |
| 24 | The impulsive left- hander Aamir Sohail , on his first tour of England , showed the confidence of a veteran . |
| 25 | Paul Turner was on his first tour of duty in Northern Ireland when he was shot while on patrol . |
| 26 | Private Paul Turner was on his first tour of duty in Northern Ireland when he was killed . |
| 27 | Oh aye , on his first night of being back . |
| 28 | Lack of peak fitness had told against him on his first run of the 1989–90 season when pitched in against Desert Orchid and other top chasers in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day . |
| 29 | Frenchpark is another who should relish the conditions and could win the Coal Trade Benevolent Association Conditions Stakes on his first run of the season . |
| 30 | Oxfordshire youngster Ddavid Harrison had a battle on his hands when he hooked a 24 lb 5 oz pike on his first cast of the day at a local lake . |