Example sentences of "[vb past] on [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The instrument which Holly used on his last tour is on display in a music museum in Texas . |
| 2 | Local residents can be helpful , as Allen Watkins found on his first ley walk . |
| 3 | The appalling hardship , primitive conditions , tremendous heat on the exposed rocky outcrop , and the omnipresent spice of danger which he encountered on his first experience of active service , appealed to the adventurous and the Spartan in Leslie , and salved the conscience that had irked him during his long training and frustrating inactivity at home . |
| 4 | So she concentrated on his last remark . |
| 5 | Officials at Faro Airport said the three-engined plane crashed on its second attempt to land in heavy rain and crosswinds of up to 40mph . |
| 6 | On the day before de Macon sailed on his second voyage , the Ralembergs invited me to a formal supper . |
| 7 | Archie usually performed as a combative left-half for the Palace , but he was also occasionally drafted into the front line , to play as a makeshift centre-forward to most useful effect , because his considerable height gave him a distinct advantage in that department and he scored on his first two outings for us in the number nine shirt . |
| 8 | In 1886 he came on his last lecture tour , managed by Pond , and at the invitation of Parker . |
| 9 | Leeds regained the advantage when Hanley crossed and Gallagher tagged on his fourth goal . |
| 10 | That is what happened on our first day here . ’ |
| 11 | Evidently that had been broken off very soon after she arrived on her first station . |
| 12 | Wondering whether English was still taught in schools , she commented on her 114th birthday : ‘ Many of the people I hear on the telephone do n't even know how to speak the language properly . ’ |
| 13 | I love Lucy , she breathed on her eighth orgasm and slept like a loved and wanted baby . |
| 14 | This is what she spent on her last three pairs of shoes : £3.99 in 1977 , £9 in 1980 ( when she was working ) and £4.99 in 1982 . |
| 15 | In a declaration published in the press on Feb. 7 a group of 62 retired officers , one of whom , Gen. Jacobo Yépez , was later arrested , accused civilian governments since 1974 ( when Pérez embarked on his first term of office ) of creating the circumstances for a coup by failing to fight corruption and provide the Venezuelan people with order and justice . |
| 16 | On July 18 James Baker embarked on his fifth tour of the Middle East since March . |
| 17 | Very shortly before Maxwell embarked on his last voyage on the Lady Ghislaine he was discussing legal matters with the Legal Director of Mirror Group Newspapers , Arthur Davidson . |
| 18 | It dawned on me last season , as we took a first-minute lead over Carlton Town West Saxons , that perhaps it was Fate that plucked pink , 544 , from the hat . |
| 19 | The other thing I 'm wondering whether I should do the Petroline order which in fact flew on its first leg to Rome yesterday . |
| 20 | Then in 1986 I moved down to London , played keyboards with a cabaret group and worked on my second book . ’ |
| 21 | He also won four full England caps and netted on his first two appearances . |
| 22 | Chicks started on their third day , for instance , made fewer errors to begin with than chicks started on their first day . |
| 23 | Chicks started on their third day , for instance , made fewer errors to begin with than chicks started on their first day . |
| 24 | Now comfortably ensconced in Barham with his fiancée , Diane , a Brummie belle whom he met on his first tour here four years ago , he says he is enjoying himself , even if those impenetrable Lee van Cleef eyes and inscrutable countenance give precious little away . |
| 25 | Even then , they can lose the post for the most bizarre reasons ; Downing Street myth has it that Richard Cobb failed on his first attempt to get the Oxford Chair of Modern History because he wore bicycle clips throughout his interview . |
| 26 | The study skills she had learnt were certainly of value — six weeks before she went on her first overseas assignment her company put her through a crash course in Greek ! |
| 27 | That was the year I went on my first diet . |
| 28 | Just before I went on my first furlough after five years ' service , the Bishop of Rangoon , Norman Tubbs , called me and told me that on my return from furlough he wanted me to take over the training of the Burmese clergy . |
| 29 | On Sunday we went on our 2nd sight-seeing trip , to Huaching Hot Springs , a historic ‘ spa ’ patronised by emperors in the old days when Sian was the capital of China . |
| 30 | At one end of the town was a bank where we went on our first day to change some money . |