Example sentences of "[adv] on a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cam always looks so peaceful , especially so on a winter 's day with no punts or rowing boats in sight . |
| 2 | These badges were handed out only on a nurse 's last day in the hospital , after she had taken State and Hospital Finals and accumulated a sheaf of satisfactory ward reports . |
| 3 | Some were only on a month 's loan . |
| 4 | Bob is away on a day 's painting course today , so I am catching up with my letters before the Christmas deluge . |
| 5 | Then came the most dramatic theory of all — that German commandos dressed as British soldiers had stormed ashore on a summer 's night in 1940 . |
| 6 | people are shopping already and normally on a Wednesday we we 're we 're really bustling , it 's our busiest day of the week . |
| 7 | Indeed when our hosts tried to press still more on a woman 's plate and she blurted , ‘ I ca n't — I 'd be sick , ’ they looked quite delighted . |
| 8 | Of course , ten p.m. on a winter 's night , when one was a lady of leisure expected to be indoors enjoying a meal which someone else had cooked , was perhaps a bit much . |
| 9 | And even on a cook 's wages she would n't be able to rise to that . ’ |
| 10 | By the flickering light of a hundred or more paper spills , and with no small straining of the eyes , I had read things to haunt the most sceptical , least imaginative mind , even on a summer 's afternoon in good company . |
| 11 | This forms part of their occupational culture and helps to explain the strongly negative values placed on imprisonment because of the damage it is known to inflict , not least on a person 's capacity to re-enter the community subsequently . |
| 12 | A wooden bench seat and a scatter of garden chairs suggested that the residents of the surrounding buildings might take their ease there on a summer 's night . |
| 13 | The volatile Scot , currently on a month 's loan to Birmingham City after being transfer-listed by Southampton , lines up against Newcastle with an eye on a move back into the Premier League . |
| 14 | Dahlum , currently on a month 's loan at Old Trafford , could clinch a contract with an impressive reserve performance against Sheffield United this week . |