Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] on the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ITALIAN Fabrizio Tescari won his first World Cup race as defending champion Alberto Tomba crashed out on the second leg of yesterday 's slalom in Sestriere , Italy . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The K2s got away on the second attempt . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ But suppose , ’ his voice lingered sarcastically on the last word , ‘ I do n't want to be out of your life ? ’ |
| 7 | Er mainly the proposal and then everybody came back on the sixth which is quite a long break in Christmas but we do need that break till we organize ourselves after Christmas |
| 8 | We rose with several of our colleagues , who spilled out on the fifteenth floor to attend the nightly booze-up . |
| 9 | Only 25 of the forty aircraft entered were ready to start , and then several dropped out on the first leg due to mechanical problems . |
| 10 | We came here on the ninth of June nineteen fifty . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Leeman plugged away with constant strikes and both his colleagues joined in on the 17th end when continued Brackley accuracy brought the game to a premature conclusion . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |
| 16 | A far cry from the £2 tray meal handed out on the first of the Scenic Land Cruise trains eight years earlier , in a decade of special-train running where sophistication got its chance — and left behind many ordinary folk for whom the railway ‘ excursion ’ is now but a fading memory . |
| 17 | The first day of the tournament ended when the last couple holed out on the 18th green at 8 p.m . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He achieved little on the first day that he spent ‘ in the field ’ but on the second day he got into conversation with a group of men about a puppy that one was carrying . |
| 20 | He was sitting alone , off to one side , watching a historical simularity , shipped in on the last supply drone , that vas playing in the centre of the room . |
| 21 | Price powered home on the first count with 465 first preference votes , but Beth mustered only 11 . |
| 22 | He served also on the next major court to try James Hamilton ( third Marquis and first Duke of Hamilton ) , Arthur Capel ( first Baron Capel of Hadham ) , and Sir Henry Rich ( first Earl of Holland ) [ qq.v. ] for treason , signing their death-warrant on 6 March 1649 . |
| 23 | Nails pulled furiously on the last of his cigarette , threw it down and stamped on it . |
| 24 | At four he lost only on the first and last outings ( beaten narrowly on both occasions ) of a sixteen-race campaign . |
| 25 | Further that we shall petition government tor an abolition and nullifying of the foresaid Act from the records of British parliament ; that the members of parliament for this county shall present this petition , or any annexed thereto , to the two Houses of Parliament , and to the Privy Council , during the prorogation of parliament — ‘ Menzies was seething and he broke in on the last words . |
| 26 | She rang in on the fifth day to say she was no better and did n't feel she was getting anywhere . |
| 27 | Further savings could come if countries that are developing breeder technology worked together on the next generation of reactors . |
| 28 | And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ? |
| 29 | As the camera pulled back on the last shot and credits were shown on the screen , the tension in the studio relaxed , replaced by an exultant mood . |
| 30 | But he lost out on the First Division title because he was reluctant to strengthen the team . |