Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover recent racialist attacks are worsening and spreading to West Germany , as The Times reported on 7 October 1991 . |
| 2 | One of Reagan 's most spellbinding TV performances came on 27 July , two days before both houses were to vote on his tax cut proposal . |
| 3 | The only recorded royal tram ride in the first hundred years of Blackpool tramways occurred on 21 October 1937 , when HRH The Duke of Kent ( the present Duke 's father ) visited Blackpool to open Victoria Hospital , the lifeboat house and Princess Way , culminating in him switching on the Illuminations . |
| 4 | The four Roman catholic archbishops replied on 28 April that they opposed divorce in general , and particularly the type of what they considered to be unrestricted divorce proposed in the constitutional amendment ( Irish Times , 28 Apr. 1986 ) . |
| 5 | Adidas insisted on 500 pairs going to the ‘ flagship store ’ in Oxford Circus . |
| 6 | Soviet troops advanced into Korea to accept the surrender of Japanese forces ; Stalin kept his word and when American troops arrived on 8 September , they assumed responsibility to the 38th parallel . |
| 7 | The change in policy means that parts of the leaflet on charities which Customs issued on 1 February 1992 are now incorrect . |
| 8 | Japanese plans to seize Midway Island , an important US base in the north of the Hawaiian Islands , were thwarted when the fleets met on 3 June 1942 , and American dive bombers sank all four Japanese carriers . |
| 9 | They bought white cotton sheets with lace borders and matching pillow-cases , blue towels with white alamandas appliquéd on one corner , a collection of decorative shells for Elaine 's bathroom , and an assortment of locally made wicker baskets . |
| 10 | The Rutland jurors swore on 7 December 1299 that all the vills and lands outside the bounds they then set out had been afforested in the time of King John . |
| 11 | In Rutland the jurors swore on 25 July that a great part of the county had been afforested by Henry II , though there is evidence that this had been done by Henry I. Subsequent returns for Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire and Somerset also demanded extensive disafforestments . |
| 12 | Nuvolari died on 11 August 1953 . |
| 13 | Certificates were mentioned again on 29 April 1819 , but diplomas appeared on 7 July 1819 . |
| 14 | By the time of Jesus , the Pharisees fasted on two days of the week , Monday and Thursday . |
| 15 | Rehearsals started on 27 July , and Martin Browne had taken the precaution of advising the cast not to ask the author to elucidate any of the dialogue ; one actress disregarded the advice and asked Eliot what one of her lines meant . |
| 16 | A further indication of the growing strength of Hispano-Axis relations came on 20 October , when the German police chief , Heinrich Himmler , arrived in Madrid for talks on police collaboration between Spain and Germany . |
| 17 | Passengers sat on two rows of benches facing one another . |
| 18 | Most of the monsters walked on four legs . |
| 19 | Demonstrations began on 11 February in Stepanakert , the regional capital , and led to the adoption of a resolution by the regional soviet on 20 February which called for Nagorno-Karabakh to be transferred back to Armenia . |
| 20 | One of our very old members died on 16 May in the Victoria Infirmary . |
| 21 | US Cobra helicopter gunships swooped on one area , apparently to confine the gunmen . |
| 22 | The first real brush between the two sides came on 17 December when Cumberland 's horsemen approached the rear of the baggage train between Shap and Penrith , but it was not till next day that a more serious encounter occurred . |
| 23 | The last group of Zbonszyn children arrived on 29 August , three days before the outbreak of war . |
| 24 | Soviet troop withdrawals began on 15 May and were completed on schedule on 15 February 1989 ; Shevardnadze , addressing the Supreme Soviet the following October , described the original decision to intervene as a violation of ‘ general human values ’ and of party and state procedures . |
| 25 | The Chronicle C text for 1036 also records his arrival and death , which an obit in an Ely calendar shows occurred on 5 February . |
| 26 | Then there were the unwritten rules : girls travelling by train were not to travel in carriages with boys , and walking to school in the mornings , boys walked on one side of the road , girls on the other . |
| 27 | The handlers stood on one side , each holding his bird in a double grip , one arm underneath for support , the fingers of the other hand loosely grasping the crop . |