Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] on the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again .
2 Then they replaced the nonfiction temporarily , as the volumes came to hand , and started on the second half .
3 She finished the sandwich and started on the second , eating hungrily .
4 I went through the first pile , which seemed mainly to be stock orders from golf professionals around the country , and started on the next tray .
5 John Barratt , for that was his name , paid an investigatory visit to Coniston Mines , was impressed with what he found , and wrote on the 4th August 1823 to Lady le Fleming to say that he was considering taking the mine .
6 The reactions of Lev Tolstoy , who sympathized with Tocqueville 's admiration of paternalism in the French countryside , and Chicherin , who admired the French centralization which Tocqueville found distasteful , said much about the two men 's very different attitudes towards the quandary in which Russia found herself , but turned on the second rather than the third part of Tocqueville 's study .
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