Example sentences of "[conj] on the [num ord] " in BNC.
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31 | When seen in hospital she was far less depressed than on the first occasion and did not feel she needed further help . |
32 | The vistas on this route are no less impressive than on the first one . |
33 | Eventually , during my evolutionary wanderings through Biomorph Land — the sense of triumph was scarcely less than on the first occasion — I finally cornered them again . |
34 | Dirty Harry once said ‘ a man needs to know his limitations ’ , and nowhere is this more true than on the 13th . |
35 | If anything , he says , the IASC could be accused of focusing too much on countries in Continental Europe and Japan , rather than on the Third World , in an effort to put the framework of basic accounting standards in place . |
36 | Each time the workmen saw me , they offered a ride and it became more difficult to refuse , until on the sixth day I weakened . |
37 | Originally , the Romans had a complicated system of dividing the month , with Calends ( from which our word ‘ calendar ’ is derived ) on the first , Ides on the fifteenth of March , May , July , and October and on the thirteenth day of the other months , and Nones occurring eight days before the Ides . |
38 | That slowed things down a bit and on the second day England made some progress through the wickets . |
39 | They provided interim employment and on the second , a further chance for Nicholson to hone his writing talents , since he both acted in it , and wrote the screenplay . |
40 | Lewes 's group found the track , and on the second night out stumbled on the signal lights placed by the LRDG . |
41 | A striking example is provided by a famous maker of astronomical instruments , Jean Fusoris , who was arrested on suspicion of treason in 1415 , during the invasion of France by Henry V. Interrogated twice in a single year , on the first occasion he claimed to be ‘ fifty or thereabouts , and on the second ‘ sixty or thereabouts ! ’ |
42 | And on the second day after he had departed , Gil Diaz placed the body upon a right noble saddle , and this saddle with the body upon it he put upon a frame ; and he dressed the body in a gambax of fine sendal , next the skin . |
43 | Twice his quarry threw him backward glances , and on the second occasion seemed to slow his pace , as if he might stop and attempt a truce , but then thought better of it and put on an extra turn of speed . |
44 | And on the second count , now that she 'd virtually made up her mind to visit the warehouse tonight , did she really want to discover the truth , after all … ? |
45 | In the House of Commons the bulk of the Labour opposition ( as well as the Liberal Democrats ) voted with the government , but on the first occasion over 50 and on the second over 30 Labour members critical of the bipartisan approach agreed by their party 's leadership voted against ( resulting in resignations from their posts by three frontbench spokespersons ) . |
46 | President Eisenhower , who was also a war hero , er Republican president er when he heard of Forbus 's erm actions er he er he sent federal troops to Little Rock , Arkansas , and on the second day of the school year federal troops in full combat gear , you know with , with machine guns and all the rest of it and er helmets and stuff , escorted the black children into school . |
47 | And on the second train from Oxford they pulled the communication cord to try to avoid us . |
48 | Twice Iorwerth 's warning signal had fetched them hastily to their pre-arranged places ; but on the first occasion Isambard had shunned the dripping copse and ridden away down the softer slopes eastward of Parfois , with his attendants strung out after him like beads on the string of darker green he left in the wet grass ; and on the second it had been a full-scale hunt with a dozen or more guests and very nearly fifty retainers , and Owen had held his hand , unwilling to venture against such odds . |
49 | er Red er Leicester , I got a lump last and there was no taste at all and on the second day , we not having a proper fridge just er , a a fridge you know keeping it in store |
50 | And on the second day in the morning he was happily going down this nice sunny day on the coast road er to south Wales driving away quite happily , and then suddenly and a police car came across him , came in front stopped him . |
51 | On the 10th , Mme Jacqueline Auriol took the Class C-1g speed record over a 1,000 km closed circuit to 534 mph , and on the 15th also broke the 2,000 km record at 509 mph . |
52 | A few extracts I believe will suffice : March 11th , 1335 , he carried out an ordination , the following day , March 12th the first tonsure of seven clerks and on the 15th , another ordination . |
53 | On the eighth of February of nineteen seventy two died and on the eleventh of May seventy three died and the plaintiff 's continued the action but the action failed so he was awarded damages from the sale of his estate and on the twenty first of July nineteen seventy two commenced an action against solicitors for negligence or breach of professional duty in detecting to register the option necessity of so doing . |
54 | The murder was on the 12th , the 13th found him in Farnham , the 15th in Petersfield , and on the 17th the fugitive was in Portsmouth , trying desperately to join the Marines . |
55 | In September 1198 his election was repeated at Mainz and on the 8th he was crowned by the archbishop of Tarentaise , Aimo , not as he should have been by the archbishop of Mainz — recognized as the crowning archbishop from the tenth century — who was absent on crusade . |
56 | On 13 August Sir John issued orders for his various detachments to assemble at Stirling , the key strategic point controlling the approach to Edinburgh and the road into England , and on the 19th , the very day that Charles was hoisting his standard , Cope himself moved up to Stirling , 80 miles [ 127 km ] from Glenfinnan , where he organised his column for the coming march . |
57 | In July 1908 the railway was ready for traffic and on the 19th a daily freight train commenced to run . |
58 | The May total includes some exceptional movements of puffinus off Beachy Head , on 28 May 1972 , involving 84 birds , and 8 May 1975 , involving 64 birds , and on the 9th with 126 birds . |
59 | On 28 May , the DIA video gear arrived from Lebanon , and on the 29th , he flew home alone with it , having been assured that Mary-Claude and Sarah would be protected until such time as they could join him in the States with Mary-Claude 's sister Giselle . |
60 | Of course when they did reappear the predictable line ‘ And on the seventh day he rested ’ was much used . |