Example sentences of "on the [det] occasions " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stunning view of Dumyat makes a splendid backdrop to the garden , reminding us of the times Sir Monty spent hillwalking on the many occasions he visited Stirling . |
| 2 | On the few occasions when I had ventured a criticism , he always picked on some word or expression I used to prove his point , claiming that it was a subconscious betrayal of my true nature and my real thought . |
| 3 | On the few occasions when parents have taken their grievances over sex discrimination to the courts , the question has concerned school admissions and single-sex schooling , which was discussed in Chapter 4 in the context of parental choice . |
| 4 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 5 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 6 | On the few occasions I have met him it has been very difficult for me not to let slip something about you . |
| 7 | The group 's sound engineer , Mike Stout , deputised and also stood in on the few occasions Solowka chose to attend Leeds United matches instead of gigs . |
| 8 | On the few occasions when the wind was not blowing a gale , the fog descended like a shroud . |
| 9 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
| 10 | There were dances in the Hut by the Strathmore Arms and when we grew up a bit and thought our fathers would n't find out we would nip into the Strathmore Arms for a pint , on the few occasions we could afford . |
| 11 | He was perfectly amiable to her on the few occasions when they did meet ; sometimes she even felt that he liked her . |
| 12 | Alice never spoke of him except casually but on the few occasions , like last night 's dinner party , when she had seen them together they seemed to have the intuitive mutual awareness , an instinctive response to the other 's needs , more typical of a long-standing successful marriage than of an apparently casual fraternal relationship . |
| 13 | On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her . |
| 14 | On the few occasions when she had been compelled to enter the water , she had stayed in the very shallowest part of the pool and had never for a moment released her grip on the handrail . |
| 15 | On the few occasions on which she and Hugh had met since that time , neither of them had ever said a word about that holiday . |
| 16 | He used to work as a policeman and , on the few occasions when he was in extreme danger , automatically did whatever had to be done without any thought for his own safety . |
| 17 | THE generally held belief that the marriage of Diana and Charles has broken down seems to depend on photographs of the couple on the few occasions on which they appear together in public . |
| 18 | He was impressed by her intelligence and , on the few occasions when he asked her opinion , by the growing assurance of her taste . |
| 19 | It was n't that the Captain had anything specific to ask him , but on the few occasions they had worked together the Marshal had always had something helpful to offer . |
| 20 | On the few occasions when a particularly serious accident involving great loss of life or a very large aircraft occurs , the Secretary of State will order a public inquiry . |
| 21 | Her lovely face came before his eyes and he thought how beautifully she had played on the few occasions she had come down here with him . |
| 22 | There was little enough fun in her life ; she had no friends , she rarely left the house and on the few occasions she did , it was never on her own and her only contacts were with her mother , the tutors , some of the servants and Patrick . |
| 23 | On the few occasions where constructed data is used as illustration ( of a paradigm , for example , in Chapter 4 ) , it is inevitably directed towards accounting for the range of formal options available to a speaker or writer . |
| 24 | On the few occasions I did get some time off to go somewhere , there would be photographers everywhere , besieging me at the airport as if I was some international film star going to Hollywood . |
| 25 | I talked utter rubbish for hours , and on the few occasions that I faltered Lorne would break in and take over until I had recovered my strength . |
| 26 | Joe Fitzgerald was so much older and moved in a different circle , and on the few occasions that Sarah had seen him he had shown no interest in her , but she liked him and knew that he enjoyed reading and poetry as much as she did . |
| 27 | or if on the few occasions that someone gets married , they hold a night . |
| 28 | Scholz was wearing that wise , reflective look that pipe-smokers get or act on the few occasions their pipes are working well . |
| 29 | On the few occasions she 'd spent holidays at home she 'd been a social outcast among her contemporaries . |
| 30 | On the few occasions when Fernando had some pressing business to attend to she was able to put her own mind to work and make a few valuable contacts for the agency but the majority of her time was spent with her love . |