Example sentences of "on [pos pn] [noun sg] [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 | ‘ I 've had my greatest moments here on my birthday for the last 20 years and I do n't intend to stop now . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | A moving spectator caught her eye as she swung and she hooked into sand on her way to the first of three successive bogeys . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | After the break-up with Hugh she had resolved to concentrate on her career for the next few years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Both scored par 3s and went on their way to the 7th tee chatting amicably . |
| 16 | The casualties were carried past our position on their way to the First Aid post . |
| 17 | Willis and Hemmings discussed George and Elaine on their way to the next address . |
| 18 | Albion were on their guard from the first minute when Steve Guppy curled a shot into keeper Stuart Naylor 's body . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | and they fall flat on their face in the first week or so . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | On 5th March a successful meeting of the Group was held in Glasgow when Mr F. J. Kennedy , Reporter to the Children 's Panel , Glasgow , gave a most interesting and inspired talk on his experience over the last few years . |
| 24 | A twice-cracked shin-bone reduced Ian 's initial impact on his bow in the First Division , although he completely proved his worth among that august company and was called up for England B duty in December 1989 , before the injuries were sustained , but no one , friend or foe alike , will ever forget his dramatic appearance , again as a ‘ super-sub ’ , in the FA Cup Final of 1990 . |
| 25 | But it was as nothing to the humiliation which the unions would pour on his government in the last two years of its term . |
| 26 | He scored 120 and 74 not out on his debut for the 2nd XI , against Kent at Chelmsford . |
| 27 | A man in Pripyat sunbathed on his balcony throughout the next day . |
| 28 | Just before he was due to pack his case , tidy the papers on his desk for the last time , and go home , Spittals was surprised to receive a call from the commander of the Squad , who asked the chief superintendent to call in before he went home . |
| 29 | In 1631 Aylesbury encouraged Warner to edit and publish Harriot 's treatise on algebra , the Artis Analyticae Praxis , and wrote on his behalf to the ninth Earl of Northumberland for a reimbursal of expenses . |
| 30 | Barry fits a visor on his colt for the first time in the Ladbrokes Ayr Gold Cup in a bid to cover all the angles . |