Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] on the [num] " in BNC.

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1 The B–17 pilot then skilfully brought the bomber down in front of the cameras , which recorded the dramatic crash landing as the right wing slammed down on the two right props and engines .
2 Heliopsis snatched a dramatic late verdict under George Duffield in the Tennents Special Handicap as the curtain came down on the 1992 Scottish Flat racing programme .
3 Well erm he came back on the twenty fourth , no , never mind that we we 've been to-ing and fro-ing have Asian Associates and I and
4 And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports .
5 The pregnant housewife was found stabbed and battered after going missing when her car broke down on the M-50 motorway .
6 You had to meet these people , Wilcock would explain , and thus they went off on the 31 bus to meet the Trinidadian .
7 In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may .
8 When he was told that what he had said was all very well but a bit negative , he fell back on the 13 wasted years that he has been in opposition .
9 Some of the mud and rubbish washed down on the two houses Picture : PHIL MICHEU
10 I missed out on the two games against Lyngby and the first leg against Leeds .
11 These are the people who missed out on the Eighties ' boom and who are now being hit hardest by the recession .
12 In carrying out the balancing exercise Hoffmann J. set out on the one hand the enormous losses caused to a listed public company , the interests of the creditors of B. & C. , the public interest in having the whole matter investigated and the need of the administrators to find out the true financial position of the company and the truth of the representations made concerning it .
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