Example sentences of "it was on [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |
| 2 | Because it was on the twentieth floor , the flat had an amazing daytime view of the great and glittering river ; by night , it was the great towers of the financial district to the west that glittered . |
| 3 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 4 | It was on the first floor of a late Victorian house in a road which was not too far from Craven Cottage . |
| 5 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 6 | ‘ It was on the first night that Lesley-Jane told you she was pregnant . ’ |
| 7 | It was on the first tape . |
| 8 | It was on the third evening that she went round Ashden Place . |
| 9 | The company has a large number of Business Expansion Scheme investors who backed the company before it was on the Third Market . |
| 10 | It was on the last day of 1988 that he began the experiments whose data were to appear in the published paper . |
| 11 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |