Example sentences of "two occasions [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Girlfriends and mates often watched them run through their set and on the two occasions they appeared at Gedge 's school and Queen Elizabeth High School , where Solowka was a pupil . |
| 2 | Certainly Constanze and Wolfgang seem to have gained more satisfaction from their marital relationship than from parenthood : on two occasions they abandoned a newly born baby to the mercies of a wet-nurse while they undertook a prolonged journey ; and , while Mozart occasionally refers affectionately to his eldest son in his letters , the little boy was sent away to school as soon as possible , presumably to give his father some peace to work . |
| 3 | He was in part correct. , But on the two occasions they had met , the president had given the Shah reason to believe he valued him , Those meetings are cameos of the perplexities of international relations , and they help explain the Shahs won confusion . |
| 4 | On one or two occasions they did manage to meet alone , but Stapleton followed them and was not pleased to see them together . |
| 5 | In primary school the qualifying exam had been talked of for at least two years before the time came , yet I have no memory of when it did , only that our last term was punctuated with little exams and on two occasions we had something quite new to do : intelligence tests . |
| 6 | On two occasions we were called into the hospital in the wee small hours , expecting the end — but the dear old rogue had nine lives and , at seventy-nine , he seemed to be negotiating for another two . |
| 7 | All I can say is that in a period of two years erm of five , in that time there was five sets of redundancies at erm Hatfield , there are two occasions we were told that they went through it and agree with the unions that there 'd be no more for twelve months and one occasion there was another chap in three months , so if you believe anything that the P A E people there , you know , you really want to wear dark glasses but could I ask you a question , I understand that there is something going on at work with Richard at and my guess is , is , erm that sort of job which we are , there is some form of development plans going forward . |
| 8 | " The boy ; they were n't there when we went in nor were they around on the two occasions I checked the street , not were they there when I accompanied the doctor to the cab . " |
| 9 | But that in no way affected my admiration for what Winston had done , and I am pleased to think that on one or two occasions I have been able to render him some modest service in the way of a reward for this particular display of public courage . |
| 10 | We both slept badly that night : on two occasions I woke when Benjamin cried out in his sleep . |
| 11 | It is those two occasions I am going to tell you about . |
| 12 | On two occasions he applied to take over redundant or nearly redundant churches and on a third to start a new church . |
| 13 | On two occasions he failed ignominiously to lose his virginity to a girl called Rosie in the packing department . |
| 14 | On two occasions he used the word " Jew " as a pejorative adjective — once in a letter to John Quinn , dated 12 March 1923 , and once in a letter to Ezra Pound , dated 31 October 1917 . |
| 15 | On two occasions he joined large dinner parties designed to raise money for particular charities and I witnessed him reduced to slumping over the table on folded arms , where he remained comatose until gently removed at the end of the meal . |
| 16 | On the two occasions he came here , I thought him a charming youth . |
| 17 | A commission of inquiry chaired by Englishman Kgabo , looking into land allocations in villages surrounding Gaborone , had reported that Mmusi had been involved in improper land transfers , and that on two occasions he had interceded in favour of Kwelagobe in decisions of the local land board . |
| 18 | On two occasions he , repeated me that like that . |
| 19 | On two occasions she had to cancel engagements , on others she looked pale and sickly , acutely aware that she was not helping her husband . |
| 20 | On one or two occasions she even hinted she would be leaving . ’ |
| 21 | He looked as icily cold as he had done on the other two occasions she had met him . |
| 22 | On the first two occasions it preceded some terrible event , so he is in a state of great apprehension . |
| 23 | On two occasions it was my pleasure and privilege to introduce Sunday afternoon concerts in Stanley Park , with Sir Ernest MacMillan conducting the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra . |
| 24 | ‘ I hardly missed a game in eight years , and , to be honest , on one or two occasions it got boring . |
| 25 | We found that on two occasions it was unable to copy a large file across 5 floppy discs . |