Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] on [adj] occasion " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a clear view of them from a branch of a tree that overhung the water , and I watched them on several occasions . |
| 2 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 3 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 4 | Over the years , he told me on many occasions of his first day in business at Wilton when a young man . |
| 5 | He was an assiduous and permanent gambler of modest sums , He told me on one occasion that any year in which he did not win £1,000 was by his standards a failure . |
| 6 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 7 | Ben he spotted me on these occasions he invariably called out some mocking remark and if he happened to be with some of his cronies they all joined in the laughter at my expense . |