Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] on [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He always has his party on the last free night before production . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Between 150 and 200 prospective customers visited our stand on the first morning , ’ says Patrick Fitz-Gibbon , public affairs manager with Unipart , who organized the event . |
| 3 | Did you really expect to find your mother on the first day ? |
| 4 | Shares in the manufacturer of bridal wear and nursery products , which only made its debut on the Third Market a year ago via a placing at 100p , stand at 136p . |
| 5 | " Alone , " she told my mother on the first night . |
| 6 | With every nerve on edge and my heart pumping I put my foot on the first stair . |
| 7 | I put my hand on the last page , and hesitated . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't want to see him , ’ Anna said , remembering her inoculation on the first day back , and how it had hurt . |
| 9 | Lawrence , who fractured his kneecap on the last day of the final test in Wellington , arrived at Gatwick airport this morning . |
| 10 | If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now . |
| 11 | This is likely to be your most fertile day , as it is not unusual to detect your surge on the first day of testing . |
| 12 | ‘ She 'll celebrate her birthday on the twenty-eighth , wo n't you , my lovey ? ’ |
| 13 | I recall his emphasis on the last eleven words — and how they struck chill into me at the time . |
| 14 | To be honest I ca n't remember , I know my lot on the last thing Wigan was doing two hundred and thirty an hour , so twelve times twenty , two hundred and thirty |
| 15 | With its object-oriented NeXTstep environment , the NeXT Computer System from NeXT Computer Inc is an obvious early port of call for object database vendors and Versant Object Technology Corp has announced plans to put its database on the NeXT line . |
| 16 | He sliced his drive on the 18th hole of the 6,094yard par 69 course . |
| 17 | Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest also based his judgment on the nineteenth century jurisprudence . |
| 18 | Ninety-six per cent of the voters followed his lead on the first question and two-thirds on the second . |
| 19 | William Golding 's second novel , The Inheritors ( 1955 ) , and his favourite , is about the historically remote world of Neanderthal man , conversing in cries and grunts and on the point of being supplanted by smooth and hairless superior beings ; his third , Pincher Martin ( 1956 ) drowns its hero on the second page and recounts his thoughts in the rest . |
| 20 | The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) in Vienna is close to finishing its report on the first systematic study of the Chernobyl region by outsiders . |
| 21 | He had holed his putt on the 16th and was one shot ahead . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're having your lamp on the 8th of January . ’ |
| 23 | It is difficult to generalise , but we all thought that the pupils related their work on the Second World War to the current conflict in the Gulf . |
| 24 | And all the time he knew Cadalora would make his move on the last lap . |
| 25 | The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals in July 1990 had overturned his conviction on the first charge and sent the other two convictions back to US District Court judge Gerhard A. Gesell , to determine whether testimony from any of the 67 witnesses at the original trial had been influenced — directly or indirectly — by information which North gave Congress under grant of limited immunity during four days of nationally televised interrogation in June 1987 [ see p. 37605 ] . |
| 26 | Seb backed up his threat with a two-pronged pitchfork , jabbing it to within inches of Boz 's face as the gipsy placed his foot on the first rung . |
| 27 | Quite what their role in British theatre was , was hard to define , but they knew everyone , everyone knew them and managements even came to regard their presence on a first night as an essential good luck charm . |
| 28 | And she weighed Zuleika 's words , and the shadow-voices , against her own uncertain judgement , and put her boot-toe on the next step up . |
| 29 | The vice-chancellor and all professors , readers , lecturers and other salaried officers of the university shall vacate their office on the 30th day of September following the date on which they attain the age of 65 years unless the council … shall request any such officer to continue in office for such period as it shall from time to time determine provided that in the case of such persons holding office on 30 September 1977 , the date shall be that on which they attain the age of 67 years . |
| 30 | The senior lecturer or lecturer shall vacate his office on the 30th day of September following the date on which he attains the age of 67 years , unless it is specially extended by resolution of council . |