Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Although Ernest Bevin 's Transport Workers had not come out on strike the real opprobrium of the Labour movement was held for Jimmy Thomas , the railwaymen 's leader , whose opposition to sympathetic strike action had been vital to the collapse of the Triple Alliance . |
2 | ‘ She dined here on Saturday the tenth of September . |
3 | Greg remained perched uneasily , staring down into his glass , feeling like a juggler who suddenly finds he is keeping eleven balls in the air instead of ten , and wonders where on earth the other ball has come from . |
4 | Witches ' Stew One pound of stinging nettles , five spiders found dead , half a pound of mouldy grass , two small sticks , seven old banana skins , half a pound of leaves , nine witches ' toenails , three bats ' wings , seven cockroaches , eight pigeons ' feathers and the fur from a wire-haired fox terrier , all stewed together on Friday the thirteenth from 12 noon to 12 midnight . |
5 | The first sailing from the port after midnight on the New Year was taken as the official start of the Single Market ; the first piece of freight on board was actually an unidentified light van and trailer — the driver no doubt blissfully unaware that he had made history — which , along with several vehicles turning round from the inbound convoy , sneaked back on board the 01.00 return sailing of the Pride of Kent while the official welcoming party was still in progress at the other end of the port . |
6 | He 'll appear again on October the fifteenth . |
7 | So we were lucky and then we opened up on January the fourth nineteen fifty five . |
8 | And I joined up on March the fourth nineteen eighteen . |
9 | Friday 's planned run was , unfortunately , wiped out by an inopportune burst of flu , so most of the mats were handed out on Saturday the 16th between noon and midnight . |
10 | Big Jack walked out on Newcastle the next day . |
11 | The promoter , Murray Beetson , says he does n't condone the use of drugs and he prefers to avoid the term Rave for the event , which gets underway on August the 20th . |
12 | The Alvington entry will be competing in a new class for slightly modified production models , hoping to head off the Jaguars and Porsches when the race gets underway on June the 19th . |
13 | This church took the old name of St. Lawrence and served the people of Upper Halling until October 21st 1971 , when it was officially closed , being finally pulled down on Friday the 10th May 1974 . |
14 | I drove via Barking to call in on Duncan the Drunken before the traffic built up , but his garage was locked and that meant calling at the house . |
15 | Erm what we were doing was filling in these these postcards asking MPs to turn up on February the fourth to support the energy conservation bill when it has its er second reading in Parliament . |
16 | When they go out on patrol the other men will point out that such-and-such happened here , soand-so lives there , that 's a bad area , and so on . |
17 | Eighty four people died here on April the nineteenth , of whom at least twenty were young children . |
18 | High mortgages , the massive increase of families in bed-and-breakfast accommodation , a revised benefits ' system sweeping away school meals ' entitlements and heavily dependent on loans , the Poll Tax , cutbacks in family planning clinics , the introduction of loans in higher education , fare increases and timetable reductions on deregulated public transport — we know that such hardships bear more on women the less money they have . |
19 | He exuded sympathy and concern , urged Amiss to take as much time off as he felt necessary , assured him he would be given sick pay and that his job would be secure , and only after a long argument agreed very reluctantly that he could come back on duty the following day . |
20 | I understand that that , that has now been cancelled erm , at least , the speaker has been cancelled but the evening still goes forward on Monday the sixteenth and they 've now got a jockey whose name I ca n't remember , I 'm sure John would be able to help me but er |
21 | He was due for release next year but ran off on May the 4th from a prisoners ' training camp at Simonds Yat on the Gloucestershire / Herefordshire Border . |
22 | He said but she 'd be considered along with all the others but she ai n't gon na get a job with terminal full time when her contract runs out on May the eighteenth if she does n't get her finger out and get dr driving test passed and buy herself a car . |