Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Smith and David Brand from HMS United got inshore on their first night 's recce to find a long and uncharted sandbank off the south coast port of Gela , where the Rangers would land that summer . |
| 2 | On average the infants in both groups were operated on on their second day in hospital . |
| 3 | Hoomey was splashing away on his third length when Nutty , getting bored , got up to fetch a toffee out of her blazer pocket where it was tossed down under the cupressus hedge . |
| 4 | He told ‘ er that , when he came home on his next leave , they were going to get married . |
| 5 | When Re came out on his next daily journey , the serpent lay in his path and bit him . |
| 6 | He had already admired Animal Farm which , as he tells in his diary ( 31 August 1945 ) , he read promptly on its first appearance to spite his cousin Claud Cockburn , who as a loyal Communist Party man had warned him against reading Trotskyite literature . |
| 7 | If Louisa had not dreamed badly on her first night at the Lodge it was because she hardly slept at all . |
| 8 | ‘ Firstly , I want to play better on our next record than I did on this one ; that always has to be a major goal for me . |
| 9 | Hurrying away on her next mission , Nicandra felt quietly elated because the little act of kindness in donating her scone had been accepted with so much pleasure and a thoughtful reservation for breakfast . |
| 10 | Above : Fiona Wilson concentrates hard on her next move . |
| 11 | Many pilots find that they manage safely on their first few short cloud climbs but that they soon get tired and lose their concentration . |
| 12 | In the late afternoon Dangerfield and Killion were flying together on their fifth patrol when they saw a formation of five Pfalz fighters climbing towards them . |
| 13 | Pioline , the 15th-seeded Frenchman who has never won a tournament , followed up on his fourth round demolition of world number one Jim Courier by beating Andrei Medvedev of Ukraine in the quarter-finals 6–3 6–1 3–6 6–2 . |
| 14 | He worked on the buses when he arrived , showed me a canopy in front of a hotel that he 'd brought down on his first solo drive . |
| 15 | Even before Tasker and Boardman had set off on their last attempt Bonington and Adrian Gordon — the base camp manager — decided that they would go up the mountain to help with the descent from the North Col , concerned that if Tasker and Boardman reached the summit by the long ridge above the pinnacles , they would be close to collapse on their descent . |
| 16 | It 's no stranger than joining the army and coming home on your first leave with a moustache . |
| 17 | Soon her hundred tons were brought to life as all eight sails pulled hard on her first tack of the season . |
| 18 | There are many who arrive actually on their 60th birthday , asking us to find them a job because they have no intention of retiring . |
| 19 | The Queen harmony vocal idea was pretty much fully developed even on your first album , and it seems like the most significant developments since have been on the part of technology catching up . |
| 20 | Bruno 's promoter , Micky Duff , urging Lewis to cash in on his first defence with a summer clash at Wembley stadium , said : ‘ That kind of money puts Frank in a very solid position . |
| 21 | However , before you sally forth on your next video shoot , take a long , cool look at your first tape to identify any mistakes you may have made so that you can avoid them next time . |
| 22 | This process occurs as a result of five stages , sometimes known as the ABCDE approach , which is illustrated with an example of a man whose girlfriend fails to turn up on their first date . |
| 23 | The fanfare seized up on its first chord and then seemed to fall over itself , collapsing in a welter of notes . |
| 24 | or NAAN , I do n't care , so long you include it at the end of your first appointments because at the end of the day all you 're doing is saving yourself a bit of time , and that 's the whole purpose of ANNA to make sure that when you go back on your second appointment , this guy is committed to do something . |
| 25 | ‘ The set-up was not quite right and I just could not go quicker on my second flying run whatever I did . |
| 26 | Ever since Vogue homed in on it last December , the Wonderbra has been literally bouncing off the shelves . |
| 27 | Nutty felt very pleased with life , swinging her legs in the clear water as Jazz slipped past on his second length . |
| 28 | ‘ We might just sneak up on you next time . ’ |
| 29 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 30 | They were on a school trip to Pembroke Dock in West Wales and were setting off on their last visit when the crash happened . |