Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] 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 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
3 We rose with several of our colleagues , who spilled out on the fifteenth floor to attend the nightly booze-up .
4 Only 25 of the forty aircraft entered were ready to start , and then several dropped out on the first leg due to mechanical problems .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The first day of the tournament ended when the last couple holed out on the 18th green at 8 p.m .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 She rang in on the fifth day to say she was no better and did n't feel she was getting anywhere .
12 And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ?
13 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 .
14 But he lost out on the First Division title because he was reluctant to strengthen the team .
15 Reid , who lost winning positions on the final day in the Masters and the US PGA , was beaten 3 and 2 and when he bowed out on the 34th green he was nine under par for the day .
16 The blaze broke out on the third floor of Camrex House , Tatham Street , Sunderland , and destroyed a bed .
17 Liam McNamara ( a North Shore surfer riding a Willis Phazer ) took off on the first , followed by Tony Moniz ( another local ) on the second and Carroll on the third .
18 We took off on the last leg for Tromsø .
19 We all took off on the last hundred yards ' dash and I was mildly surprised to find that the first man past the post was myself — and I was n't really out of breath .
20 Moodie , suffering a bout of flu , kept up the momentum but eased off on the last lap with a minor suspension problem .
21 The curtain went up on the second act to reveal the face from this image lying on the ground where it was walked over and trampled on by the cast .
22 Garth McCartney and Philip Young were the only drivers who could challenge Emerson but they both went out on the second stage , McCartney retiring with broken throttle linkage and Young crashing .
23 However , Nicol failed to capitalise on his lead and went out on the second match ball .
24 A memo by a lieutenant-colonel on the staff ( whose signature is illegible ) to the Director of Military Operations at MEHQ gives an insight into what was in the pipeline for L Detachment , ‘ which went out on the last operation hurriedly and ill organised .
25 Unfortunately this fell out on the third ascent .
26 ‘ Well , he went back on the twenty-third of April 1950 .
27 When the Birmingham architect Joseph Crouch looked back on the nineteenth century , he reflected that ‘ the spirit of Evangelical religion in England has changed in a singular manner during the past fifty or sixty years .
28 Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion .
29 He looked back on the last ten days , reflecting on the events which had brought him to where he now was .
30 He spoke out on the last day of Labour 's Scottish conference in Inverness , which ended with the party in better spirits than organisers could have dared hope even a week ago .
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