Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed that Santa 's address , the answer to Enigma 595c , failed to appear on 2 February with the rest of the answers to the Christmas Enigmas . |
| 2 | The nomes craned and tried to climb on one another 's shoulders to look at it , and none of them knew what it was except for Grimma , who was staring at it with a strange quiet smile on her face . |
| 3 | I tried to get on one two Mondays ago in Redditch |
| 4 | The closest he came to exercise was to open one eye every so often , if someone entered the room , or to open both eyes , smile , and wag his tail as he 'd done on one occasion when confronted by a housebreaker ! |
| 5 | Her gaze had drifted as she spoke and seemed to rest on one of the photographs displayed nearby . |
| 6 | They seemed centred on one particular grave , so the Doctor stepped over to it for a closer look . |
| 7 | He gave me the inside scoop on the Biggest Wave story : the thirty-five-foot mountain he 'd ridden on 5 January 1985 . |
| 8 | Now to be fair , the dilemma was there as the whole soft crust thing got going on 10 November 1989 , when the fall of the Berlin Wall gave a prop of plausibility to the caring-Nineties mediaschlock , and to Rifat Ozbek 's baggy Kleenex-vagabond numbers . |
| 9 | The strength of the bureau then became founded on two basic propositions : first , that communism posed a serious threat to the United States and , secondly , that the FBI afforded the United States unique protection against that threat . |
| 10 | Jessamy pushed them irritably to one side and began to work on one of the dragons , filling in some of the more intricate details . |
| 11 | We began to work on two hander pieces — she took the pictures , I wrote the words . |
| 12 | This was the situation when the British-Indian brigade began to disembark on 26 October . |
| 13 | She darted away and began spinning on one foot in the middle of the room , but he quickly took hold of her and drew her back . |
| 14 | This new system , now known as the Local Management of Schools ( LMS ) , began to operate on 1 April 1990 , and is planned to be completely in operation by April 1993 . |
| 15 | From the start , the opposition negotiators decided to concentrate on two demands : that wages be indexed to the rise in prices and that increases in food prices be gradual . |
| 16 | Alexei started to pull on one of the ropes . |
| 17 | He could not bear to talk about what had happened and so he handed it to Julia and went to sit on one of the excruciatingly uncomfortable gilded chairs by the window while she read it . |
| 18 | The newly elected archbishop , Winchelsey , while sympathetic to the clergy , took a paternalistic view of the realm , which he saw threatened on three fronts , and urged his clergy to make a grant to the king . |
| 19 | Tom King did try on one occasion to attack Labour 's defence policy — but mainly on the grounds that it would lose jobs . |
| 20 | In the old days the boys learned to step on two bricks . |
| 21 | But she did say on one occasion , after Cassie had been home for about two days : ‘ How 's that nice young man we met , Cassie ? |
| 22 | As planning progressed the four groups into which the staff were easily divided ( because they had taught on four different sites ) came together in their views . |
| 23 | The fighting had stopped on 29 April 1945 , and he had spent 11 days in Allied-occupied Austria , leaving on 22 May . |
| 24 | We had to go on three trains . |
| 25 | There , Stirling heard by radio that Tripoli had fallen on 23 January , and thus Jordan 's mission was vital . |
| 26 | ‘ Poor old Home Office ’ , Soskice had minuted on one file . |
| 27 | The memory was triggered by talk of a young woman I had met on one trip who showed me Dyrhólæy and the sea pinnacles of Reynisdrangar near Vik . |
| 28 | Suddenly Wolves panicked , a minute later , Paul Simpson ran clear , he had done on two previous occasions , and missed good chances . |
| 29 | As laid down in the will that he had made on 29 April 1696 , revising an earlier one dated 13 July 1685 , in which his wife had been named as his sole heir , Howard 's estates were inherited by his only surviving child , Henry Charles Howard ( born 18 October 1668 ) ; from him they descended to his son , Charles Howard [ q.v. ] , who became tenth Duke of Norfolk in 1777 . |
| 30 | The village of Markham cum Cumbermound had grown on one of the rare patches of clay with which the fens were dotted . |