Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] on the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 2 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 3 | ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added . |
| 4 | A memo by a lieutenant-colonel on the staff ( whose signature is illegible ) to the Director of Military Operations at MEHQ gives an insight into what was in the pipeline for L Detachment , ‘ which went out on the last operation hurriedly and ill organised . |
| 5 | After four attempts to set our 45lb CQR in the thin sand-over-rock bottom , we gave up and put out a couple of 40lb Danforths , both of which bit hard on the first attempt . |
| 6 | We rose with several of our colleagues , who spilled out on the fifteenth floor to attend the nightly booze-up . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She rang in on the fifth day to say she was no better and did n't feel she was getting anywhere . |
| 9 | She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call . |
| 10 | Our intention was to reside half the year at Southall , and the remainder in London , and I remember we moved there on the 26th June , 1830 … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We came here on the ninth of June nineteen fifty . |
| 13 | We arrived safely on the 19th [ 18 September according to the Hobart Town Courier ] of September in excellent health , and but for the thoughts of those we left behind should also be in good spirits as our prospects here are in many respects cheering . |
| 14 | And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ? |
| 15 | We took off on the last leg for Tromsø . |
| 16 | We did n't , we did n't on the first request . |
| 17 | We slept out on the last fields , leaving the 90 zigzags of path up to the plateau for the next day . |
| 18 | Er mainly the proposal and then everybody came back on the sixth which is quite a long break in Christmas but we do need that break till we organize ourselves after Christmas |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He served also on the next major court to try James Hamilton ( third Marquis and first Duke of Hamilton ) , Arthur Capel ( first Baron Capel of Hadham ) , and Sir Henry Rich ( first Earl of Holland ) [ qq.v. ] for treason , signing their death-warrant on 6 March 1649 . |
| 21 | He achieved little on the first day that he spent ‘ in the field ’ but on the second day he got into conversation with a group of men about a puppy that one was carrying . |
| 22 | He worked consistently on the third act , and by the end of the year he had finished a draft of the entire play . |
| 23 | Reid , who lost winning positions on the final day in the Masters and the US PGA , was beaten 3 and 2 and when he bowed out on the 34th green he was nine under par for the day . |
| 24 | At four he lost only on the first and last outings ( beaten narrowly on both occasions ) of a sixteen-race campaign . |
| 25 | But he lost out on the First Division title because he was reluctant to strengthen the team . |
| 26 | Further that we shall petition government tor an abolition and nullifying of the foresaid Act from the records of British parliament ; that the members of parliament for this county shall present this petition , or any annexed thereto , to the two Houses of Parliament , and to the Privy Council , during the prorogation of parliament — ‘ Menzies was seething and he broke in on the last words . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , he went back on the twenty-third of April 1950 . |
| 28 | He looked back on the last ten days , reflecting on the events which had brought him to where he now was . |
| 29 | He spoke out on the last day of Labour 's Scottish conference in Inverness , which ended with the party in better spirits than organisers could have dared hope even a week ago . |
| 30 | And very much more recently , Lord Shuttleworth who is the chairman of the rural development commission , and this he said actually on the sixteenth of November this year , said , There is a severe lack of affordable housing in the countryside which obviously does n't improve the situation . |