Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] on [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 2 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 3 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 4 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 5 | I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all . |
| 6 | ‘ A tale from Lamb , ’ she muttered , opening it on the first page . |
| 7 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 8 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 9 | But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year . |
| 10 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Put me on the next train home ? ’ she suggested unsteadily , her pulses skittering recklessly . |
| 12 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 13 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 14 | ‘ Not before time , ’ Stevie remarked , as Patrick joined him on the 17th tee . |
| 15 | In my maths in school we just finished them on the last day . |
| 16 | Certainly , salmon seem to use smell to guide them on the last stage of their journey . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll meet you on the second floor . |
| 18 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 19 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 20 | The trial of Marion Barry , 54 , Mayor of Washington DC , ended on Aug. 10 when , after eight days of deliberation , the jury convicted him on one count of possessing cocaine but acquitted him on a second charge of possession . |
| 21 | Or does n't , you know , exhaustively optimize it on the first pass , all the time . |
| 22 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 23 | His wife , who was alleged to have aided and abetted him on the second occasion was jailed for three years after a two-day trial . |
| 24 | The first thing they ask me on the 1st tee is , ‘ Billy , tell me all about your family . ' ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 26 | It felt it on the first morning when it came in and I sat on it , I thought well I 'm sure it did n't feel like the one we tried in the shop did n't feel like this but |
| 27 | This band of gold probably originates from Egypt , where lovers wore it on the fourth finger of the right hand or ring finger . |
| 28 | You could use it er , in the reverse of the way that the theory suggests , which you can actually leave it on the last diary page where you have something on your to do list that you have n't completed . |
| 29 | I 'll call you a Pakistani , they wear three t-shirts , I said do you go to bed in them and then just leave them on the next morning put your school shirt on top ? |
| 30 | If the authorities read that they 'd put me on the next bus to [ name of border area ] and keep me there . |