Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] on [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home . |
| 2 | I could double up on the first hit and get better odds . ’ |
| 3 | Two more previews to go , and then , at seven o'clock on the Thursday ( early so that the critics could get their copy in ) , the curtain would go up on the first night proper of The Hooded Owl . |
| 4 | Other potential candidates , who were remaining loyal to Ted but who it was known would come in on the second ballot if Ted were defeated , were quietly being accused of cowardice by the Neave camp . |
| 5 | THEY , I predict , will fall back on the last line of defence . |
| 6 | The recall re-presents come back in two phases erm one tape will come back on the fifteenth of April , the second tape will come back on the sixteenth of April which means that those policies , when status report runs on the fifteenth of April it will only assess those policies erm that have had |
| 7 | The recall re-presents come back in two phases erm one tape will come back on the fifteenth of April , the second tape will come back on the sixteenth of April which means that those policies , when status report runs on the fifteenth of April it will only assess those policies erm that have had |
| 8 | Paulos is admirable on the nature of coincidence — the inevitability of improbable events — on the logic of gambling in its various forms from coin-tossing to the Stock Exchange ; the Gambler 's Fallacy ( the belief that when a coin has landed heads several times over , there is an increased probability that tails will turn up on the next throw ) ; Pascal 's wager ; Condorcet 's paradox ; the prisoner 's dilemma . |
| 9 | They can look back on the last years they spent together as some of the best in their whole lives . |