Example sentences of "on [pos pn] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I ca n't get to the person they want I try and say to them , ‘ Look , can you please ring back ’ , because if they left a message , that message would have been lying on my desk until the next morning , until I get round to actually phoning that person internally , saying this person rang . |
| 2 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 3 | It 's been a great weight on my shoulders over the last month . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've had my greatest moments here on my birthday for the last 20 years and I do n't intend to stop now . |
| 5 | October 27th , 1984 , was ringed around on my calendars as the FIRST Hampshire Rally . |
| 6 | Likud had portrayed the elections as a test of political strength and was disappointed with the result although it improved slightly on its performance in the last elections in 1985 [ see p. 34008 ] . |
| 7 | On its return from the last raid Sugar diverted to Leuchars in Scotland after a sortie lasting 10 hours 51 minutes , which turned out to be her longest flight of the war . |
| 8 | We need to ratify it to make progress towards European Union if the Community is to remain an anchor of stability and prosperity in a rapidly changing continent , building on its success over the last quarter of a century . |
| 9 | He three-putted the 14th , and then the television buggy came past on its way to the 15th , and the guys on board told me that Crenshaw — — who was nearest challenger then — had double-bogeyed 17 . |
| 10 | The CDA 's share of the vote , at 32.7 per cent , although marginally up on its result for the last municipal elections in 1986 [ see p. 34309 ] , compared aversely with 35.3 per cent in the September 1989 general election [ see p. 36900 ] . |
| 11 | To keep market share , IBM has just cut prices on its PCs for the third time this year . |
| 12 | A moving spectator caught her eye as she swung and she hooked into sand on her way to the first of three successive bogeys . |
| 13 | Alone , with most of the lights out and the cleaning ladies dotting about in the corridors , she tidied the papers on her desk for the fiftieth time . |
| 14 | It would have been a particular thrill to have met the man who could pen such material , she mused as she closed the lid on her suitcase for the last time on Tuesday morning , but she knew that that was out of the question . |
| 15 | The high society platinum beauty brought up in a secluded hot-house may look a million dollars on the show stand , but is all too liable to fall flat on her face at the first pinprick of adversity and does not stand a chance unless she is cocooned in protective sprays . |
| 16 | After the break-up with Hugh she had resolved to concentrate on her career for the next few years . |
| 17 | For instance , when the Yorkshire Television helicopter landed on her doorstep for the first time , it was feared that the experience may be alarming to her , something akin to an alien spaceship settling on to the average suburban lawn . |
| 18 | The delegates exchanged views on their experiences of the first six months of the pilot and considered the problems of offering general SVQs in a remote area , school-college partnerships , and the additional assessment , and produced a checklist of advice for new piloting centres ( see opposite ) . |
| 19 | Both scored par 3s and went on their way to the 7th tee chatting amicably . |
| 20 | The casualties were carried past our position on their way to the First Aid post . |
| 21 | Willis and Hemmings discussed George and Elaine on their way to the next address . |
| 22 | Albion were on their guard from the first minute when Steve Guppy curled a shot into keeper Stuart Naylor 's body . |
| 23 | Now Akarnania was neighbour to Ambracia , and Ambracia , in north-west Greece , was a Corinthian colony which kept close links with the mother city : the Ambraciots put the winged horse Pegasus , the emblem of Corinth , on their coins in the fifth century . |
| 24 | In the second stage of gubernatorial , congressional and local elections held on Sept. 8 , the ruling Justicialist Party ( PJ — the Peronists ) built on their success in the first stage in August [ see p. 38388 ] by winning 10 of the 13 governorships being contested and gaining seven seats in the Chamber of Deputies , although this was still insufficient to give the PJ an outright majority . |
| 25 | England international Richard Knight has teamed up again with Berwick on their return to the Second Division after being linked with leading First Division teams . |
| 26 | and they fall flat on their face in the first week or so . |
| 27 | Congratulations to Ulster riders Ian Buchanan , Paul Maguire and Adrian Lappin on their performances in the second round of the British Enduro Championship . |
| 28 | Some approached the Santuario on their knees for the last part of the journey , saying the Rosary and imploring the Madonna 's help . |
| 29 | They were still on their knees after the last Amen , when a sudden gust of wind arose , blowing past the nave altar and into the choir , as though from the south door , though there had been no sound of the latch lifting or the door creaking . |
| 30 | ‘ I think he will win , but it has only been when he has had the sun on his back in the last couple of days that he has really come on . ’ |