Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] on the [num ord] " 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 | Even if she jumped on the next space shuttle to Mars it would n't make any difference . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ’ If it happened on the 2nd of June this year , I 'd die . ’ |
| 5 | Miss Kingsley was a practical woman ; she had spent years housekeeping for her family and was thirty before she left on the first of her journeys to West Africa in 1893 , taking with her boots , blankets and a hot-water bottle . |
| 6 | The house wore a permanently uncompleted air as if , sixty years before , the builder had intended it to be part of a pair of semi-detached houses but had run out of money or enthusiasm before he started on the second one . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The crowd had now swelled to huge numbers as we stood on the 16th tee . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We led by two shots going into the last round , and when it blew on the last day , I did n't think anybody could beat Trevino . |
| 15 | ‘ Even when it stopped on the 5th ’ , the historian John Buchan was to write , ‘ there followed days of sombre skies and wet mists and mucky clouds . |
| 16 | With this drop of ink at the end of my pen , I will show you the roomy workshop of Jonathan surge , carpenter and builder in the village of Hayslope , as it appeared on the 18th of June , in the year of Our Lord , 1799 . |
| 17 | He took the Canal Turn as fluently as he had on the first circuit , then swept towards Valentine 's Brook . |
| 18 | " Why are they doing all this work so early in the morning ? " she asked Captain Duro when he appeared on deck looking as spruce and polished as he had on the first day she met him . |
| 19 | As he stood on the first tee at New Orleans last week , he noticed a boy in a wheelchair . |