Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] on the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look , seriously , do I need to get on the next train back to Liverpool Street and go and find her ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Why , oh why , do I get mispatterning on the second side of my jumper ? |
| 3 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 4 | There 's actually another complaint this morning I 've had on the first floor of G P House . |
| 5 | Well you see in an ideal situation of the six people I 've got on the second list there 's better quality people there but they 've got absolutely zero experience but we 're not the sort of company who can take these people on and train them really |
| 6 | The SAD paper set out a number of options — I wish to concentrate on the fourth . |
| 7 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 8 | She thought with a rush of gratitude of the letter she had had from Gay , in answer to the one she had written on the first night of the holidays . |
| 9 | He had absolutely , however , set his face against accepting help from Ruby Dobby although she had arrived on the second floor that morning full of promises if not promise . |
| 10 | Vargas Llosa , who had led on the first round on April 8 [ see p. 37371 ] , now won only 2,713,442 ( 33.92 per cent ) . |
| 11 | The choreographer was Onna White , who had worked on the first musical version of a Charles Dickens book , Oliver ! , the 1968 British film starring Ron Moody and Oliver Reed — for which she won a special Oscar — and had staged Half a Sixpence in New York , featuring Tommy Steele . |
| 12 | I have to say I enjoyed the first programme much more , simply because of the subject we had to discuss on the second one , which was Christmas . |
| 13 | Here we have stumbled on the first of many . |
| 14 | They start building on the twentieth of March . |
| 15 | THOUSANDS of Namibians stood in long queues , stretching nearly a mile in some cases , as they waited to vote on the first day of Namibia 's five-day pre-independence election yesterday . |
| 16 | According to the judge , the ‘ decency clause ’ another compromise with Congressmen who threatened to dissolve the NEA was so vaguely worded that it tends to impinge on the First Amendment 's guaranteed right to freedom of speech . |
| 17 | It had happened on the last occasion as well , for Venice was delighted with Niccolò vander Poele , who had destroyed the plants and was freeing Cyprus , God be good , of the Genoese . |
| 18 | Every evening he would come down wearing the black cashmere jacket he had worn on the first night , and in a mood that was somehow expectant . |
| 19 | The little boy was wearing the same neat grey flannels that he had worn on the first day Robert had seen him , and , when the sun struck his face , he smiled up at it as if in gratitude . |
| 20 | He had never enjoyed the thought of making love in a standing position since the embarrassment he had suffered on the last occasion , about a year before . |
| 21 | He also took a stick out of the packet of Edinburgh rock he had bought on the first day . |
| 22 | He had started on the second chair when Dadda shouted up the stairs . |
| 23 | He considered leaving on the first train in the morning . |
| 24 | He 's Born on the Fourth of July . |