Example sentences of "[vb past] on the [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it rained , but mainly the sun shone on the army first summoned into existence , without the impact of commercial pop , back at the Albert Hall in 1965 , and the Roundhouse in the cold October of 1966 . |
| 2 | Margaret Stanhope put down the telephone , stood up , smoothed her tight skirt down and knocked on the door next to her desk . |
| 3 | Was she the woman we met on the road last night ? ’ |
| 4 | In a bizarre twist , Sir Patrick Mayhew went on the hustings last Tuesday … with who else but East Belfast Tory Jim McCormick ! |
| 5 | No , er , I , apparently I saw on the Teletext last night |
| 6 | I returned to our room and lay on the bed next to my dear wife . |
| 7 | The white dog lay on the floor next to him . |
| 8 | The screwed up remains of another airline 's rejection letter lay on the bar next to her cigarettes . |
| 9 | It turned from the storm and from those inside the office block ; its need focusing on the ruined corpse that lay on the pavement next to it . |
| 10 | Michael Forsyth said on the news last night that public support for residential care will continue and I believe him . |
| 11 | The magnitude of excursion of the mirror was read aloud by a second observer ( watching the projected light ) to an assistant who wrote on the drum next to the appropriate signal . |
| 12 | The first Frear knew of his presence was when Devlin slid on the stool next to him and ordered a beer . |
| 13 | These ridges have been built with considerable rapidity for Camber Castle stands on the innermost ridge , although , when it was constructed in 1538–9 , it stood on the ridge next to the sea . |
| 14 | As Asa turned , the Gruppenkommandant , Colonel Erich Adler , sat on the stool next to him . |
| 15 | Benjamin sat on the stool next to my bed and wiped the sweat from his face . |
| 16 | Then she sat on the bed next to Sarah . |
| 17 | He picked up the wine cup and sipped from it and then sat on the bed next to Sir John , staring down at the great wooden bed posters . |
| 18 | Jamie came in and sat on the couch next to my chair . |
| 19 | Yeltsin supporters , who formed a ‘ creative coalition ’ within the chamber , have ensured that the emergency powers to rule by decree for a year , which Congress bestowed on the President last autumn , remain wholly intact . |