Example sentences of "on the first [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heavy rain had prevented an ; y play on the first day at Old Trafford , and though high scores were not expected when play got under way on the second day , few people could reasonably have expected that the contest would be over and done with in one day . |
| 2 | But it 's confusing now because they put the news on and you can watch the evening news on the first feed at five o'clock in the afternoon now in San Francisco . |
| 3 | BOOKMAKERS are investigating a large scale copycat betting coup on the first race at Hackney yesterday . |
| 4 | Money inherited from his mother enabled Minton to exchange his cramped working space at Allen Street for the vast purpose-built studio situated on the first floor at Apollo Place . |
| 5 | I left the main group and started searching on the first floor at the west side of the house . |
| 6 | Nigel Robson , tall and pompous , became wonderfully enraged as the Mayor ; while Juliet Booth , ill on the first night at York but now displaying her fine voice and musicianship to the full , mixed honey and gall as the spoiled and fickle Arminda . |
| 7 | But on the first night at least Richard Hague 's careful Figaro seemed only part way there , tentative and restrained in his guile . |
| 8 | The nerves on the first night at Taunton had been bad ; so had the understudy nerves of the first night at the Variety ; but they were nothing to the sheer blind terror that attended Charles Paris as he waited to go on stage in the role in which Michael Banks 's career had been so tragically cut short the night before . |
| 9 | When something in that costly box of tricks above the pool side malfunctioned on the first night at the Grove , they had no option but to call on a back-up team of stopwatch timekeepers . |
| 10 | The announcement was a further boost to Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas , who already has 60 per cent of the delegates needed to win the Democrats ' nomination on the first ballot at the party 's convention in July . |
| 11 | Consequently , Reagan , in looking for support from conservative Republicans , ran up against the reality that many of those same people felt bound by obligations to Nixon , who duly won the nomination on the first ballot at the Convention . |
| 12 | The Indian presence in far flung outposts of the Empire , for example , from Malaysia to East Africa , can only be understood in this context , and it is important to note that a tradition of emigration from Jamaica had already developed in the nineteenth century , with 2,000 Jamaicans migrating to build railways in Panama , followed by well over 80,000 who went to work on the first attempt at constructing the Panama Canal in the 1880s . |
| 13 | As he stood on the first tee at New Orleans last week , he noticed a boy in a wheelchair . |
| 14 | ‘ Your honour , Mr Stahl , and good luck , ’ said the starter on the first tee at Royal Portrush 's Valley course as Cincinatti businessman and Amateur regular , 54-year-old James Stahl Jnr stepped up at 7.30 to do battle . |
| 15 | And it was an honour in both senses , for , like his counterpart on the first tee at the Dunluce course — qualifiers play both championship . |
| 16 | ‘ From some of the things the boys have been telling me it 's not going to be nice standing on the first tee at the Belfry , ’ said Lane . |