Example sentences of "on [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rupert Hall 's short history of the college guides us through the years leading up to this event , then on through the 20th century to recent times . |
| 2 | On about the last trip of the night-shift , around dawn , the EMU on which he was working was approaching Kirkhill , the terminal of that particular service . |
| 3 | The specifications of November 1939 became a reality just 43 years ago , when a CW pump evacuated model with sealing wax joints was switched on for the first time at the end of February 1940 , and operated successfully . |
| 4 | Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly . |
| 5 | The mother and daughter walked on towards the third door on the other side of the corridor and which led into Mrs Funnell 's room . |
| 6 | The war went on throughout the second half of 1 168 . |
| 7 | Ladies and gentlemen , we just before we get on with the second part of the meeting when erm , meeting erm I think I ought to tell you that erm one of our committee members died a very short while back . |
| 8 | And erm , anyway , I 'm , I 'm sorry to have to tell you that but erm now we 'll get on with the second half of the meeting . |
| 9 | But for now Kylie harnessed it to press on with the next stage of her ten year plan which had been drawn up by her musical gurus . |
| 10 | But the scent was so fresh , it was obvious the beasts would be unwilling to leave for a while , so Grant decided to ignore them and push on with the next stage of their operation . |
| 11 | and the percentage staying on until the sixth year from 14 per cent . |
| 12 | Following on from the second half of their previous pool game — against Nadroga — Scotland enjoyed five minutes of possession against Samoa yet could manufacture only one clear-cut chance . |
| 13 | But I mean would that is the the the sort of the thing I would like to put an em emphasis on in the first half of the term . |
| 14 | He toured Namibia with Ireland two seasons ago , coming on in the First Test as a replacement for Simon Geoghegan . |
| 15 | Once we have incorporated the Maastricht treaty into our law — presumably , as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said , in the first Session of the new Parliament — we must press on in the second half of 1992 , when we have the presidency of the Community , to set out more clearly our vision of a common European future . |
| 16 | Paul came on in the second half of the game in Dublin last week and played well . |
| 17 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
| 18 | Swing , he screamed at himself as his arms crashed into the pine , not holding , but the weight of his body already carrying him on in the next arc of his trajectory . |
| 19 | I think both he and Weatherall are outstanding prospects , but need an ‘ old head ’ to bring them on over the next couple of years ( pity about O'Leary ) . |
| 20 | We 've actually had a recycling paper project going on over the last couple of months , which made paper out of shredded newsprint and then made Christmas cards out of them . |
| 21 | She dashed clear of the control room and on to the second half of the observation gallery , thirty metres above the main executive transporter bay . |
| 22 | This leads on to the second part of the book , in which the author begins by showing that there is a deep ambiguity in our basic concepts of causality and chance . |
| 23 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 24 | Before going on to the second reason for Locke 's not acknowledging the existence of epistemic appearances I must correct a false impression I may have given , that all the seventeenth-century philosophers who succeeded Descartes toed the Cartesian line about the mind perceiving things by being causally affected by them . |
| 25 | He began explaining , straight on , then first right , on to the second set of lights … etcetera … etcetera … it 's rather a long walk , sir , he concluded . |
| 26 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 27 | Move the cursor to a blank line or on to the first character of the text to follow the blank lines |
| 28 | ‘ And now , on to the first part of our programme . ’ |
| 29 | I sat unmoving , adding up all the factors over and over , getting the same answer , while Posi took us up into Highlight and on to the first Netline of our route . |
| 30 | As each reader received a book he put the date opposite his name , followed by the date on which he finished it , before sending it on to the next person on the list . |