Example sentences of "on [pron] [num ord] birthday " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I continued to play for Clapton and Arsenal , and signed professional in 1930 — on my twentieth birthday . |
| 2 | I suppose it is a bit crass to say the one with me on it — on my 45th birthday , I think — but that 's the one alright . |
| 3 | I kept my birthday a secret , except that some students wanted me to sign some books , and as I signed them I put the date and I happened to say that ‘ I am signing this on my 44th birthday ’ , and after that the news spread mysteriously and my whole class greeted me with ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in English , and today , when I saw the other class , they sang ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in Portuguese . |
| 4 | This explains why the latter can not be used when there is no reference at all to something in the present which makes the infinitive 's event an impending occurrence as is the case in : ( 17 ) My babe-in-arms will be 59 on my 89th birthday . |
| 5 | Thoughts on my twenty-fifth birthday , which was to be my last in a prison-camp . |
| 6 | On my tenth birthday I had a really |
| 7 | I still have that little book of selected poems you gave me on my twelfth birthday . |
| 8 | This is intended as a present to me on my fortieth birthday in July . |
| 9 | I finally saw Dundee on my forty-first birthday and I pledged the ten quid to his lovely leathery face and his matchless , understated performance . |
| 10 | I 'll be thirty-four on my next birthday . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ On my fourteenth birthday — you 've always been around at the most important moments in my life , Harry . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ On my fourteenth birthday I bought a really cheap guitar and chord book from Argos and sat in my room for about 6 months and lear n't to play the entire Siouxsie & The Banshees first album . ’ |
| 13 | On my twenty-first birthday I walked out to Battle , to the grounds of the Abbey and thought very deeply . |
| 14 | On my twenty-first birthday , she sent me a cheque for three thousand pounds that had been left to my mother in her godfather 's will . |
| 15 | I had hoped that on my twenty-first birthday I would discover more about my future , but Mr Jaggers explained that he could not give me any more information , except that from now on I would have five hundred pounds a year to spend as I liked . |
| 16 | This was on my 34th birthday last March . |
| 17 | On my sixteenth birthday I walked into the house with a fag in every orifice ; I was legally old enough to smoke , so , I thought , just try and stop me ! |
| 18 | ‘ She give it to me on my eighteenth birthday . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You realise we did this on my last birthday ? |
| 20 | But Radio 1 replayed one golden oldie tradition on its 25th birthday yesterday . |
| 21 | The young toad 's growth rate depends , as does that of most amphibians , on the supply of food , but typically a toadlet will leave its pond when 8–9mm long , and will measure 40mm or so on its first birthday . |
| 22 | You all deserve congratulations for ensuring that the visit was such a success , and I am sure that it will be a great boost to all concerned with the project on its first birthday . |
| 23 | Outside the marquees driving around we stopped to look at ‘ Labyrinthian Surprise ’ , a very fine tribute to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on her 90th Birthday . |
| 24 | So , too , did Belinda Brown — on her 19th birthday . |
| 25 | EXPERTS are trying to identify a baby snake which popped out of the toaster in Shelley Marshall 's flat at Hove , Sussex , on her 24th birthday . |
| 26 | Why did time move into fifth gear on her thirtieth birthday ? |
| 27 | Charles 's daughter Sarah had made a prudent marriage , and quite late in life , too : the ceremony at St John 's had taken place on her thirty-fifth birthday , with sister Mary as witness . |
| 28 | In a later incident , Arabs threw stones at an Israeli car in north Jerusalem , fracturing the skull of a Jewish girl on her first birthday . |
| 29 | Or Alice Welch , from Byron Drive , York , who became Britain 's oldest novice when she passed her test on her 74th birthday — at the sixth attempt . |
| 30 | Wondering whether English was still taught in schools , she commented on her 114th birthday : ‘ Many of the people I hear on the telephone do n't even know how to speak the language properly . ’ |