Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I share my hon Friend 's appreciation of the value and importance of the large reforms proposed in the Bill of 1939 , and when I decided , as I announced on 23rd March , to appoint an Advisory Council to assist in the preparation of a programme of reforms , I certainly had it in mind that many of the proposals in that Bill — improved it may be by further consideration and fresh ideas — might find a place in such a programme . |
| 2 | Also when I leave on 4th Feb , I have a 12 hour wait at Rio de Janeiro , so I hope I can look round the city . |
| 3 | ‘ I live on Eighth Street and I like walking in the rain . ’ |
| 4 | I may indeed remind my friend of a thought I had by referring to it as the one I had on first wakening in Venice . |
| 5 | On 11th May the Bill was given a Second Reading and referred to a Select Committee , which met on 10th July with Molesworth as Chairman . |
| 6 | Both these directors have service contracts which expire on 1st March 1992 . |
| 7 | The first ship to discharge at the new facility was the S.S. Ebbrix , a small vessel owned by T. R. Rix & Sons Ltd. of Hull which arrived on 23rd August . |
| 8 | The first vessel to load at the new facility was the ‘ Secil Angola ’ which arrived on 27th April to load 3945 tonnes . |
| 9 | The 1993 winter sale , which ends on 30th January , has so far been a major disappointment : fewer than 290 booksellers have taken part , significantly down on previous years . |
| 10 | He presented Griselda , as a leaving present , with a voucher to buy an item from the RA Summer Exhibition which opens on 9th June . |
| 11 | The original timber Warehouse was entirely destroyed by fire which started on 12th January and burned for three months . |
| 12 | However , on mother 's birthday which fell on 24th May , father would always bring home for her a bunch of lilies of the valley . |
| 13 | It took four months to reach its decision which issued on 11th September 1992 . |
| 14 | Take the first ever Guinness ad. , which appeared on 2nd February ( James Joyce 's ) birthday ) , 1929 with the advice : Guinness is Good For You . |
| 15 | Two stimuli were used , the offset of a light and the presentation of a clicker , both of which tended on first presentation to evoke a suppression of ongoing behaviour . |
| 16 | That effectively broke the General Strike , which ended on 12th . |
| 17 | At the World Administrative Radio Conference ( WARC ) at Torremolinos , which ended on 3rd March , the main amateur interest related to allocations for the 7MHz band . |
| 18 | Susan Einzig can also recall the shock and anger she experienced on first seeing this picture . |
| 19 | In Miss Weeton 's Journal of a Governess , she writes on 15th September 1810 : ‘ I would have introduced you to Mr. Green , who keeps an exhibition of drawings ( all his own ) in that village where you might have been amused for two or three hours-for he has a great number , two rooms being kept open for the purpose . |
| 20 | Enough to make you gag on first crunch , surely . |
| 21 | A.A. rang me at 4 o/c she returned on 2nd and had had grand time with Gwenda and families . |
| 22 | Her visitors in the Exeter nursing home where she died on 7th December saw all the qualities which made her such a servant of the trade continue unabated to the end — the common sense and humour , the courage , and the huge interest in others . |
| 23 | She died on 5th August 1846 , unmarried . |
| 24 | We have been approached by many members and friends who wish to contribute towards some form of memorial in thanksgiving for the life and work of our late founder and President Molly Braithwaite who died on 19th January this year . |
| 25 | Andrew Hollingsworth , manager of the Puffin Children 's Bookshop in Covent Garden , who died on 24th March , had already become , at the age of 31 , one of the country 's leading children 's booksellers . |
| 26 | Andrew Hollingsworth , manager of the Puffin Bookshop in Covent Garden , who died on 24th March , was one of nature 's gentlemen , quiet , courteous and generous , as well as brave in the face of illness . |
| 27 | The other loss was that of the Chairman himself , Captain Sykes , who died on 25th April 1901 . |
| 28 | Ann McMillan , who died on 21st July , aged 55 years , will be sadly missed . |
| 29 | Joshua married , for the second time at the same church Elizabeth Hartley , and William soon had a half-brother , Bernard Hartley Green , who died on 16th August 1820 . |
| 30 | He was the son of Joshua Green ( b. 1725 ) by his father 's first wife Catherine Simpson , whom he had married on 22nd February 1756 , and who died on 5th September 1760 in her 27th year , just eleven days after giving birth to her son William on the 25th August . |