Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] 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 | We rose with several of our colleagues , who spilled out on the fifteenth floor to attend the nightly booze-up . |
| 6 | She rang in on the fifth day to say she was no better and did n't feel she was getting anywhere . |
| 7 | She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call . |
| 8 | And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ? |
| 9 | We took off on the last leg for Tromsø . |
| 10 | We slept out on the last fields , leaving the 90 zigzags of path up to the plateau for the next day . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But he lost out on the First Division title because he was reluctant to strengthen the team . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , he went back on the twenty-third of April 1950 . |
| 17 | He looked back on the last ten days , reflecting on the events which had brought him to where he now was . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Andy Payton was denied with a good Bobby Mimms save as he burst through on the first occasion . |
| 20 | He sat down on the next stool . |