Example sentences of "[vb past] on the [det] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former Leicester striker Paul Kitson gave the visitors the lead after 11 minutes but John Taylor equalised on the half hour before Johnson secured Derby 's fifth successive away victory . |
| 2 | UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont reiterated on the same day that the UK government would take whatever action was necessary to maintain the existing DM2.95 central parity of the pound . |
| 3 | The news came on the same day that the car makers Rover announced another year of losses . |
| 4 | He denounced the arrests on Aug. 14 of opposition leaders , which , he noted , came on the same day as the release of Sgt. Venançio Mikó Obiang , who was convicted in July 1983 of participating in an attempted coup the previous May [ see pp. 32299-300 ] . |
| 5 | They started drinking before the parson ever arrived and , when he did , fell upon the beer kegs that came on the same cart as though they were men dying of thirst . |
| 6 | Gen. Kadijevic stated on the same day that " Yugoslavia as it existed until now has ceased to be " and that " the army is therefore taking certain decisions into its own hands " . |
| 7 | Mountaineering Council of Scotland president Bob Reid described the news , which broke on the same day as the much criticised Cairngorms Working Party consultation paper was launched , as part of ‘ a double whammy for the Cairngorms ’ . |
| 8 | My coming summer holiday started on the same day as my cousin 's , and I was much looking forward to it . |
| 9 | Nicaragua retaliated on Dec. 30 by ordering 20 US diplomats to leave the country forthwith , and US President George Bush admitted on the same day that the action was a " screw-up " . |
| 10 | turn the crane round one way then the other and he got on the same lever but today they got , cos they got big lovely cranes where they stand there with four levers , four controls they 've got and it goes up and down . |
| 11 | Ridge of the Junior School died on the same day whilst posting a letter on Woodsmoor Lane . |
| 12 | Another person died on the same day and at least eight people were hospitalized with bullet wounds after police had moved in to smash barricades erected by demonstrators at Pec . |
| 13 | It says here Mr died on the same day as Mr St er was buried . |
| 14 | Two wyverns fell on the same night and after the Emperor 's death the aerial attacks gradually subsided and the siege settled down into a protracted stalemate . |
| 15 | General Philippe Morillon , the commander of the UN 's forces in Bosnia , said on the same day that he expected a solution soon to the siege of Sarajevo . |
| 16 | The FRY recognized the independence of Slovenia on Aug. 13 , but the Slovene President Milan Kucan said on the same day that this recognition meant nothing " until the FRY itself obtains international recognition " [ for wide international recognition of Slovenia in January 1992 , see p. 38703 ] . |
| 17 | Depreciation should be ( a ) calculated on the same basis as in the audited accounts for the year to 31 December , 1989 , and ( b ) charged on all assets on a monthly basis , with no upward revaluation of assets in the year and with due regard being paid to the carrying value of any assets and the length of the asset 's expected useful economic life to the Business , having due regard to the incidence of obsolescence and future requirements of the Business . |
| 18 | Just over five and a half years later , I stood on the same spot and watched the Israelis drive down the same road to be greeted in precisely the same way by the same Christians on the same balconies . |