Example sentences of "on [adj] occasion [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is certainly true of the Hundred Years War , and it is as well to remember that at Crécy , Poitiers , and Agincourt , although the English emerged as victors , on each occasion they were not entering the French kingdom to attempt its conquest , but were actually leaving it , heading for the coast in search of transport to take them back to England , the main aim of the expedition already fulfilled . |
| 2 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 3 | " There 's that Gedge boy wants you , " Mrs Blakey said in a puzzled way on each occasion , and on each occasion they replied that they did n't wish to see him . |
| 4 | On each occasion they claimed to have inflicted casualties running into several hundreds killed , and also that the supposed Libyan-backed Islamic Legion was involved . |
| 5 | This force was applied by those long , black-nyloned legs , and though most of the pressure was provided by her left limb , some residual effort pushed her right foot down as well , and on each occasion we speeded up , just momentarily , as her amply-soled Doc Marten pressed against the accelerator . |
| 6 | On each occasion we tried to convey key issues in clear terms and explain how problems could be solved . |
| 7 | On each occasion I took at least half an hour to get ready , chose my clothes carefully , brushed my teeth , put my earrings in , wore bright-red lipstick . |
| 8 | On each occasion I felt that insufficient effort had been made by the surgical teams to decide on the capacity to give informed consent , and I was dismayed at the immediate assumption of incapacity because the patient had been sectioned . |
| 9 | So Middleton did two sorties I believe , and on each occasion he brought back an aircraft that was no longer capable of flying and was a write-off , it had so much flak and fighter damage , When the same thing happened a second time I had Middleton in and told him that one of his problems was his navigator who was just not able to navigate him round the very heavy flak areas . |
| 10 | On each occasion he 's been sent home from hospital because there were no beds available in intensive care . |
| 11 | On each occasion he finished third . |
| 12 | On each occasion it took time to warm a new ball . |
| 13 | On each occasion it has been a joint move with his brother and fellow Great Britain international , Stephen . |
| 14 | On that occasion we began by discussing mistakes and human fallibility . |
| 15 | On that occasion we lost no time in speeding over to the courts , finding a judge , and obtaining an injunction almost at once . |
| 16 | On that occasion we hope that as many people as possible will take the opportunity to visit us . |
| 17 | Since on that occasion they were working with the approval of Fredegund they are likely to have been opposed to Brunhild . |
| 18 | A similar incident occurred with me in 1983 between Australia and Argentina from even further out from the goal-line , and on that occasion I felt Australia would definitely have scored a try but for a deliberate knock-on by the defenders and awarded a penalty try . |
| 19 | Nor is the death of a patient through incompetent nursing , as on that occasion I pointed out . |
| 20 | On that occasion I had the hardest fight of my career and my prominent nose was badly broken before I won on points . |
| 21 | On that occasion it was my little brother Jerry who shone . |
| 22 | On that occasion it certainly did ! |
| 23 | On that occasion it set out its views the impact wider rights of audience for solicitors and lawyers employed by the Crown Prosecution Service and Government Legal Service ( GIS ) would have on the Bar and particularly the Young Bar . |
| 24 | Miss Gabriel retired from the secretaryship in order to become chairman in January 1941 , and on that occasion she told of her long association with the Guild , which she was chiefly instrumental in establishing thirty years previously . |
| 25 | The whole group burst out laughing and agreed that on that occasion she should be ‘ let off ’ her reading . |
| 26 | On that occasion she had put it down to the letter from Doreen , but now she began to wonder if the real cause of his irritation had stemmed from the fact that he had embraced her . |
| 27 | ‘ On that occasion you were right . |
| 28 | This , like his last fight with Barkley , is a rare opportunity and as on that occasion he will fight until he drops . |
| 29 | On that occasion he was three lengths clear at the last , but his injury allowed Golden Friend , who was receiving 19lb , to overhaul him on the line to win by a head . |
| 30 | On that occasion he was three lengths clear at the last , but his injury allowed Golden Friend , who was receiving 19lb , to overhaul him on the line to win by a head . |