Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] on [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
2 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
3 | I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all . |
4 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
5 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
6 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |
7 | ‘ Not before time , ’ Stevie remarked , as Patrick joined him on the 17th tee . |
8 | In my maths in school we just finished them on the last day . |
9 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
10 | The trial of Marion Barry , 54 , Mayor of Washington DC , ended on Aug. 10 when , after eight days of deliberation , the jury convicted him on one count of possessing cocaine but acquitted him on a second charge of possession . |
11 | It felt it on the first morning when it came in and I sat on it , I thought well I 'm sure it did n't feel like the one we tried in the shop did n't feel like this but |
12 | This band of gold probably originates from Egypt , where lovers wore it on the fourth finger of the right hand or ring finger . |
13 | For a time he offered his services to Louis VII of France and accompanied him on the second crusade as papal legate in charge of the Anglo-Norman contingent . |
14 | Cos Paul put it on the next day . |
15 | And left it on the second hole . |
16 | Both safely negotiated the treacherous short 15th hole and Faldo 's putter rescued him on the 18th green . |