Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glorious views open up across the Inner Sound to Skye and smaller islands ; road and railway jostle together on the last exciting mile to Kyle of Lochalsh . |
| 2 | Now the white painted bookcases which reached to the ceiling were filled only on the first two shelves with incongruous modern volumes with used-looking dust-covers . |
| 3 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 4 | Marvellously played , the work might well yield more on a second hearing . |
| 5 | The Tour has been won twice on the last stage . |
| 6 | Our intention was to reside half the year at Southall , and the remainder in London , and I remember we moved there on the 26th June , 1830 … |
| 7 | The pattern changed again on the 25th as a strong , cold northwesterly dug in behind a complex series of troughs , the precipitation turning increasingly wintry . |
| 8 | The K2s got away on the second attempt . |
| 9 | Perhaps the final irony was that Dubcek , himself a thorn in the side of Soviet authoritarianism , passed away on the 75th anniversary of Russia 's October Revolution . |
| 10 | ‘ But suppose , ’ his voice lingered sarcastically on the last word , ‘ I do n't want to be out of your life ? ’ |
| 11 | The working leg is thrust outwards on the first beat of a bar , heels click and stamp to accent the appropriate beats . |
| 12 | The change in depends only on the second derivatives at x , and so these derivatives must embody the curvature information . |
| 13 | We hope that you will continue to provide us with this vital information as we embark together on the second piloting year . |
| 14 | On may 3 it had caused sufficient problems to be pushed home on the last train of the day from Wroxham . |
| 15 | In this book we focus solely on a third set of questions : What impact is the new technology having on people at work ? |
| 16 | The Association meets regularly on the first Friday of each month , at the RE Centre , when mass is said by our chaplain , Fr. |
| 17 | We came here on the ninth of June nineteen fifty . |
| 18 | We played late on the first day and I went round in the morning spotting the pin positions , trying to get a feel for the course so I could give the right information to Nick . |
| 19 | On 27 April 1962 four together were found in fields just north of Pagham Harbour and one was seen there on the 29th . |
| 20 | No it 's it 's the one week which bridges the two erm months , but er er I will be , that we would normally be meeting again on the thirteenth of September , would n't we ? |
| 21 | The airstream veered again on the 11th as high pressure moved south over the near continent and the generally settled , quiet weather persisted until the 14th , with several frosty nights in the glens . |
| 22 | When it happens again on the next cast I turn the air blue with some choice words . |
| 23 | Clinton needs 2,145 delegates to win outright on the first Democratic Party ballot at the July convention . |
| 24 | Spenser dwells longest on the first , revealing it filled with ‘ infinite shapes of things dispersed thin' ( II , IX , 50 ) . |
| 25 | Then with school looming ominously on the next day 's horizon there was a stampede home to see who could be first in bed . |
| 26 | Having to get up very early in the mornings he tended to be in bed by the time she arrived home on the last bus from Bath . |
| 27 | The police reported that a number of fires — believed to be malicious had ignited simultaneously on the fourth floor . |
| 28 | It showed again on a second test-firing on 25 January and was finally traced to the manifold a few days later . |
| 29 | Briefly , what happens is that chapters 1 and 2 of Book III take Aragorn , Legolas and Gimli from the 26th to the 28th February ; chapters 3 and 4 lead Pippin and Merry from the 26th February to the 2nd March ; chapters 5–7 return to Aragorn and his companions and ‘ leapfrog ’ them past Merry and Pippin again to the 4th March ; while in chapter 8 these two sub-groups of the fellowship meet again on the 5th , for Merry and Pippin to bring their story up-to-date again in recounted narrative . |
| 30 | We arrived safely on the 19th [ 18 September according to the Hobart Town Courier ] of September in excellent health , and but for the thoughts of those we left behind should also be in good spirits as our prospects here are in many respects cheering . |