Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] on the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 2 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He also took a stick out of the packet of Edinburgh rock he had bought on the first day . |
| 13 | He had started on the second chair when Dadda shouted up the stairs . |