Example sentences of "on several [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On several occasions they had er displayed guns where people would back into their driveway or er show some indication that they were going on to their property , then guns were revealed , people coming out of the the buildings out there with guns and what have you . |
| 2 | Their parents like to leave toys by the graves , but on several occasions they 've returned the next day to find them missing . |
| 3 | On several occasions they had come within inches of death — tumbling down 100ft deep crevasses . |
| 4 | On several occasions we spent weekends working furiously hard in small groups at drafts of attainment targets and programmes of study . |
| 5 | On several occasions I witnessed his lordship make attempts to draw M. Dupont aside for some private conversation , only for Mr Lewis smilingly to impose himself upon them with some remark like : ‘ Pardon me , gentlemen , but there 's something that 's been greatly puzzling me , ’ so that his lordship soon found himself having to listen to some more of Mr Lewis 's jovial anecdotes . |
| 6 | We had many chats and on several occasions I had him join me for a sandwich and coffee at the Georgia Grill . |
| 7 | On several occasions I have been chatting with someone who relies on speechreading , and suddenly all the lights have gone out , cutting us off completely . |
| 8 | On several occasions I saw them and watched them while bombs were falling in the neighbourhood and air raids were overhead and asked them questions relating to war , sirens , etc … |
| 9 | On several occasions I would find myself at 1,000 ft or above , and the undercarriage was still down : the flaps , if we had put any out , were still down : the engines were belting away in line pitch ; and the mixture control remained where it was — in rich . |
| 10 | On several occasions he left the bathroom feeling weak and drained , only to stop on the dark landing at the onset of another wave of nausea . |
| 11 | The master took the opportunity to complain further to the Board that on several occasions he had drawn the medical officer 's attention to an inmate , William Sabey , who was at times a danger to others and had attempted to stab the labour master . |
| 12 | On several occasions he was driven to the point of resignation . |
| 13 | On several occasions he stood up with some serenity and went to the bathroom , and dived back in again gracelessly scrabbling at his belt . |
| 14 | At times he got impatient , if Rory failed to grasp a point , and on several occasions he glossed over figures that Rory raised a query on , assured him it was all in hand , there was nothing he need bother with . |
| 15 | When he looked up the light was pearly and the sky a blue so tender he could hardly take his eyes off it , with the result that on several occasions he collided with people coming the other way . |
| 16 | She defended militancy , arguing that the violence of the suffragettes was vastly outweighed by the force used against them , and on several occasions she was imprisoned and subjected to force-feeding in Holloway gaol . |
| 17 | In the first case of its kind since the introduction of that offence by the USSR Supreme Soviet on May 14 , 1990 , she pleaded guilty to charges that on several occasions she had insulted Gorbachev , for example by calling him a " fascist criminal " and comparing him to Hitler . |
| 18 | Work kept her busy , and on several occasions she actually enjoyed her job . |
| 19 | On several days we filmed , on others we did n't . |