1.   On the first occasion Bunny was tactful, assuring him she would be sent home in a taxi at any moment.

2.   Raskolnikov has admitted to visiting the old woman on the first occasion but of course not on the second.

3.   That was only the first occasion that Chairman Khrushchev reminded Chairman Mao that the paper tiger had nuclear teeth.

4.   The plaintiff objected to paying the tolls, and on the first occasion when he did so the owner seized his goods.

5.   This is my first social occasion in the village.

6.   Whatever Jean saw in you that first occasion was still there and she accepted your explanation about letting her down that evening.

7.   It was the first occasion when they had both found it possible to keep a rendezvous.

8.   It marked the first occasion on which the UK had taken steps to grant political asylum to a refugee from another Western country.

9.   This was the first occasion on which such a figure had been published by the Chinese authorities.