Example sentences of "born on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of 11 children , he was born on a Mississippi farm where his deeply religious father disapproved of the blues . |
| 2 | Ayliffe was born on a Suffolk Farm on 12 January 1873 . |
| 3 | Anna was a horse who was born on a stud farm that bred show stock , but unlike her glamorous relatives , she born ugly . |
| 4 | They are invisible to humans , although a child born on a Sunday may glimpse them if he puts one foot inside a fairy ring . |
| 5 | It was born on a Sunday afternoon and Carrie and Albert and Nick saw it happen . |
| 6 | Brannen , born on a farm at Sadberge and raised at first Long Newton and then Yarm , moved to Stoke at the age of 20 partly to study a sports and recreation degree at North Staffordshire Polytechnic but mainly to train under the guidance of Jim Talbot , the national decathlon coach . |
| 7 | Those born on a Friday are said to be marked out for special piety , which does not mean that they will be pious necessarily ; only that their natures are imbued with that proclivity . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , at least she knew I was born on a Wednesday … |
| 9 | ‘ I wonder was she born on a Wednesday like Patsy ? ’ |
| 10 | If you are born on a Monday , then the next year your birthday will fall on a Tuesday . |
| 11 | Bred by the Duke of Cumberland ( 1721–1765 ) at Windsor , by Marske ( a third generation descendant of the Darley Arabian ) out of Spilette ( a granddaughter of the Godolphin Barb on the sire 's side ) Eclipse was born on the day of a solar eclipse , 1 April 1764 . |
| 12 | Charlotte , believed to be the world 's second oldest person , was born on the day Alexander Graham Bell launched his first phone company . |
| 13 | The following method was used : ( a ) a date of interview ( nominated date ) was randomly selected from all 1096 days in the study period , ( b ) the control was then randomly allocated an age at which to be interviewed , ( c ) the date of birth was calculated from age and date of interview , ( d ) an obstetric hospital was randomly chosen in proportion to the number of births in 1986 , and ( e ) random numbers were used to select a particular infant from those born on the date of birth in the nominated obstetric hospital . |
| 14 | BUT YOU WERE BORN ON THE MOON . |
| 15 | Anyone with a passing knowledge of astrological influences will realize that he was born on the cusp , a Taurus caught in the influence of Aries , which makes him bullish and a bit of a ram . |
| 16 | On certain nights all the ghosts do battle and the distant echoes of their screams and war-cries are born on the wind . |
| 17 | It is not open to the health authority to deny liability on the ground that the organism that they injured was not in law the plaintiff and yet to deny responsibility for the defects with which the plaintiff was born on the ground that they inflicted them before birth . |
| 18 | On arrival at the theatre I was met by Mr and Mrs Alexander Heymeyer , the latter was originally Scottish and born on the Isle of Skye . |
| 19 | , Charlotte ( 1844–1939 ) , feminist and socialist reformer , was born on the family estate at Ripple Vale in Kent 15 June 1844 , the third child and third daughter in the family of five daughters and one son of Captain William French , retired naval officer , and his wife Margaret Eccles . |
| 20 | She was in an advanced state of pregnancy and her first child was born on the spot by caesarean section . |