Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] on [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 2 | The moment I heard there were rumours that the PLO is willing to be more moderate , that 's when I went on the first plane and went to Tunis . |
| 3 | I can remember what I did on the first day of my holiday last year |
| 4 | ‘ It 's very important for me to have the same people around me as I did on the first album … it 's a community thing , it means I can keep the same vibe as I had before , ’ he says . |
| 5 | As I said on the second reading , I do believe that some areas will need to have larger authorities because of their size , or indeed their particular problems , geographical and otherwise . |
| 6 | ‘ I used mainly my green Ibanez that I had on the last tour , but for a Be-Bop solo on Giant Steps I used an Ibanez George Benson . |
| 7 | I reflected on the next phase , and when he returned , sitting on the floor and resting his back on Masha 's bed , I plunged in again … |
| 8 | Ultima , I wrote on the last letter he sent me before his departure . |
| 9 | ‘ When I stood on the first tee in the morning I could hardly see the fairway , ’ said the Atherstone club-mate and friend of Paul Broadhurst , the Ryder Cup player . |
| 10 | She lived on the fifth floor of a pre-war block , and when they went up in the lift she casually passed him her handbag and said , Hold this , and started to take her clothes off . |
| 11 | She went steadily on , from foothold to foothold , only stopping to peel off her glove now and then and push a finger into the wet fringed mouth of a sea-anemone , but mostly she concentrated on the next step , the next handhold , with the sea on one side of her , the swell of grassy land the other . |
| 12 | She stopped on the third step , and looked back at Pete . |
| 13 | She knocked on a second door and opened it to reveal twenty children of about Flora 's age at old-fashioned desks with inkwells sunk into the top right-hand corners of the lids . |
| 14 | If you decided on the first day of the PIW you could not pay the SSP or that you had to stop paying SSP during the PIW , you employee can not get SSP now . |
| 15 | So much that she fell on the first excuse to put some distance between them . |
| 16 | ‘ You have done well , Wilson , ’ she said on the last day in Siena . |
| 17 | Even if she jumped on the next space shuttle to Mars it would n't make any difference . |
| 18 | Richard said : ‘ The fierce weather we encountered on the third leg has tested us to our very limits . |
| 19 | Yes , Chair , it 's er , remember at the , the last meeting we touched on the first part of the report , the worry about the issue of closing shops , and rural post offices and garages , and there 's considerable interest from all members er , as to what could be done . |
| 20 | The cliffs near our cottage , we discovered on the first day of that holiday , were wild and forbidding : of ancient , dark volcanic rock . |
| 21 | We landed on the first shelf . |
| 22 | The relative positions of the players changed and changed again over the second half and , as we waited on the eighteenth tee , Miguel had edged yet again one shot ahead of Jack . |
| 23 | I 'm sure that if I was still living in England we would n't have got the push that we had on the last album and we would n't have got nominated for a Grammy . |
| 24 | The crowd had now swelled to huge numbers as we stood on the 16th tee . |
| 25 | Rising through two floors of the White Tower , was the chapel of St. John where the lady Alianor and Joan attended Mass each morning : it was as they returned on the second morning that Joan voiced her enquiry . |
| 26 | When they resumed on the third afternoon after time lost for rain , they lost quick wickets , and at 214 for 6 seemed to have wasted the advantage . |
| 27 | They sat on the second row of choir benches to the left of the altar . |
| 28 | ‘ He hopped on the first plane back to Germany . ’ |
| 29 | It caught on the second try , and after a minute 's revving he switched off the ignition and let it die . |
| 30 | He drew on the first cigarette for eight years , nearly choked , and wheezed : ‘ First today , anyway . |