Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you would like to help in any way , or would like to go along on the next trip in September , contact Keith Taylor on 1252 29806 . |
| 2 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 3 | Driving off on the first day was Sandy Lyle … as a winner of the British Open and American Masters he 's got to be one of the best judges of courses around |
| 4 | It is rare for a dog to jump up on the third occasion . |
| 5 | It was picked up on the fourth ring by an answerphone . |
| 6 | Now I think it 's a bit rich t to slam the Liberals for walking out on the last debate because the Tories did n't attend the Health Trust Select Committee which Council set up . |
| 7 | ITALIAN Fabrizio Tescari won his first World Cup race as defending champion Alberto Tomba crashed out on the second leg of yesterday 's slalom in Sestriere , Italy . |
| 8 | THEY , I predict , will fall back on the last line of defence . |
| 9 | The Tour has been won twice on the last stage . |
| 10 | The K2s got away on the second attempt . |
| 11 | And this is a ph , like a photocopy , so what you 'll have is a nice printed version with Abbey Life blue , purely for you to get a feel of if you like , , and in this , we 're very quickly going to go through on the first sheet it will have activity and production and it will have your data there . |
| 12 | Perhaps the final irony was that Dubcek , himself a thorn in the side of Soviet authoritarianism , passed away on the 75th anniversary of Russia 's October Revolution . |
| 13 | For example , in ‘ Japan ’ the primary stress is on the last syllable , but when we add the stress-carrying suffix ‘ -ese ’ the primary stress is on the suffix and the secondary stress is placed not on the second syllable but on the first : ‘ Japanese ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ But suppose , ’ his voice lingered sarcastically on the last word , ‘ I do n't want to be out of your life ? ’ |
| 15 | The working leg is thrust outwards on the first beat of a bar , heels click and stamp to accent the appropriate beats . |
| 16 | On may 3 it had caused sufficient problems to be pushed home on the last train of the day from Wroxham . |
| 17 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 18 | Er , the following three pages of the papers sent out to members still stand , but there is some confusion in the numbering on er , the first page of the rest of the report , and there was a section missed out on the second page of the report which er , we 've inserted in the new papers there . |
| 19 | We rose with several of our colleagues , who spilled out on the fifteenth floor to attend the nightly booze-up . |
| 20 | Only 25 of the forty aircraft entered were ready to start , and then several dropped out on the first leg due to mechanical problems . |
| 21 | We played late on the first day and I went round in the morning spotting the pin positions , trying to get a feel for the course so I could give the right information to Nick . |
| 22 | The court ruling was handed down on the 21st anniversary of the first day of the police siege of Red Army commandos at a hotel on Mount Asama , north of Tokyo . |
| 23 | Leeman plugged away with constant strikes and both his colleagues joined in on the 17th end when continued Brackley accuracy brought the game to a premature conclusion . |
| 24 | Then with school looming ominously on the next day 's horizon there was a stampede home to see who could be first in bed . |
| 25 | He was unseated by a young health promotions officer , Des Lowry , for the SDLP who gained first preference votes of 753 , just seven short of the quota , with sitting SDLP councillor Barry Doherty going through on the first count . |
| 26 | Having to get up very early in the mornings he tended to be in bed by the time she arrived home on the last bus from Bath . |
| 27 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |
| 28 | The first day of the tournament ended when the last couple holed out on the 18th green at 8 p.m . |
| 29 | The police reported that a number of fires — believed to be malicious had ignited simultaneously on the fourth floor . |
| 30 | I could double up on the first hit and get better odds . ’ |