Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] on the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 2 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 3 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |
| 4 | there for three pairs which was just as well I stopped you on the last one . |
| 5 | I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all . |
| 6 | But Gareth Williams beat him on the second . |
| 7 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 8 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 9 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |
| 10 | Hallo sir , you 're calling about your daughter , Jennifer , erm I 'm sorry , I do n't really have any more information to add to what we told you on the twentieth . |
| 11 | ‘ Not before time , ’ Stevie remarked , as Patrick joined him on the 17th tee . |
| 12 | In my maths in school we just finished them on the last day . |
| 13 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 14 | I can not trace any acknowledgment from you of the memorandum I sent you on the twelfth of this month , regarding your talents and the scope for them in this office . |
| 15 | It felt it on the first morning when it came in and I sat on it , I thought well I 'm sure it did n't feel like the one we tried in the shop did n't feel like this but |
| 16 | This band of gold probably originates from Egypt , where lovers wore it on the fourth finger of the right hand or ring finger . |
| 17 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 18 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 19 | For a time he offered his services to Louis VII of France and accompanied him on the second crusade as papal legate in charge of the Anglo-Norman contingent . |
| 20 | So obviously you just write down that Rita did it on the 10th . |
| 21 | Cos Paul put it on the next day . |
| 22 | And left it on the second hole . |
| 23 | Both safely negotiated the treacherous short 15th hole and Faldo 's putter rescued him on the 18th green . |