Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] on [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tripoli postponed the elections until February ; Ajdabiyans confidently expected them on 1 February , and after that day the chairman of the local Assembly telephoned Tripoli each afternoon to ask if he should hold the poll . |
| 2 | But Joffre thought Lanrezac lacked fighting spirit and dismissed him on 3 September . |
| 3 | When MacDonald told him on 29 September that he was having difficulty finding a formula which could unite his colleagues , George V |
| 4 | The taxpayer received it on 8 December and it was lodged in the High Court on 15 January 1991 . |
| 5 | The DOE sent it out to referees for opinions , one of whom was Steven Jones , who received it on 20 September . |
| 6 | His younger brother , Richard , Duke of York , joined him on 16th June . |
| 7 | Crossman joined it on 29th April 1969 . |
| 8 | Cyril opened it on 22 June 43 1 , before the supporters of Nestorius had arrived . |
| 9 | I must have bloody done so , because they both produced contracts and five or six witnesses who swore that , although I was completely paralytic , I signed them on last Monday night at the Duck and Forceps . |
| 10 | A man who has slain Thomas Springall and blamed it on poor Brampton , afterwards making his death look like suicide . |
| 11 | Acting on a French tip-off , the British police arrested him on 6 June 1931 , along with a young woman , Li Sam , described as his niece but more probably his mistress . |
| 12 | After a parliamentary investigation 's report named him on 3 February , Grenoble 's chief prosecutor called off an anti-Mafia investigation , saying the release of the report had wasted months of work by alerting Pagano that he was under suspicion . |
| 13 | HAMISH BOWLES met her on Long Island |
| 14 | They passed it on 19th April when it obtained the Royal Assent and became law with the short title , The Public Offices Extension Act 1859 . |
| 15 | An individual who bought the FT All Share Index at 31 March 1982 and sold it on 31 August 1989 would have suffered tax ( at 40% and ignoring the annual exemption ) of 24.2% of the proceeds . |
| 16 | And I told him what me problem was and what he ended up doing was , he put me on six Valium a day , which did no help whatsoever , y'know what I mean . |
| 17 | An answer that the Under-Secretary gave me on 15 October 1990 suggested that a fair number of warning signals would be available . |
| 18 | Preston , at the mouth of the River Ribble , lay roughly halfway between Lancaster and Warrington , and Forster 's horsemen reached and occupied it on 9 November , to be followed a day later by the slower-moving infantry . |
| 19 | Wurtz to have this paper presented to the Académie des Sciences but there was delay because Wurtz was not then an academician : J. B. A. Dumas eventually presented it on 14 June 1858 . |
| 20 | He left Offington to this daughter , and named her and his wife executors of his will of 11 February 1631 ; they proved it on 26 January 1632 . |
| 21 | I therefore offered Gail Rebuck my resignation on 17th March , and she finally accepted it on 19th March , asking that it should be kept confidential until 24th March , after the London Book Fair was over . |
| 22 | In order to extricate himself Rafsanjani gave details of the entire American arms-supply operation to the Lebanese magazine Al-Shiraa which published them on 3 November , the day after Jacobsen 's release . |
| 23 | Thank you for your fax of 7 June regarding our filming of the dinosaur exhibition at the British Museum , and requesting agreement to your addendum to the letter we faxed you on 7 June . |