Example sentences of "on [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On my first day I felt so self-conscious , like a country bumpkin . ’ |
| 2 | On my first furlough I sought her out , and attended her course of lectures . |
| 3 | On my first arrival it stunned me so as to be insupportable : but such is the power of habit that the same noise is now heard by me with pleasure ; in the night particularly , when in bed and afar , on my terrace , this music sounds in my ears as solemn , grand and melodious . |
| 4 | On my first morning she had taken one look at me . |
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| 6 | On my tenth birthday I had a really |
| 7 | At that moment her Arabic was even poorer than mine , for she was new to the household , but on my next visit she would be rattling away in this throaty language and I would be struggling as usual . |
| 8 | I taught myself to fish the swingtip through reading Ivan 's articles , and from struggling to get a bite on my local stillwater I was able to improve until I actually won open matches there . |
| 9 | On my fourth day I went to visit the United Nations . |
| 10 | ‘ On my fourteenth birthday I bought a really cheap guitar and chord book from Argos and sat in my room for about 6 months and lear n't to play the entire Siouxsie & The Banshees first album . ’ |
| 11 | On my twenty-first birthday I walked out to Battle , to the grounds of the Abbey and thought very deeply . |
| 12 | I had hoped that on my twenty-first birthday I would discover more about my future , but Mr Jaggers explained that he could not give me any more information , except that from now on I would have five hundred pounds a year to spend as I liked . |
| 13 | I swear on my fucking life I do n't know where it is . ’ |
| 14 | When I 'm standing on my own carpet I feel like you do when you come back from holiday . |
| 15 | On my sixteenth birthday I walked into the house with a fag in every orifice ; I was legally old enough to smoke , so , I thought , just try and stop me ! |
| 16 | On my next-to-last day I take a taxi to the Roman ruins at Tipasa , 50 miles along the coast from Algiers . |
| 17 | On my last day I had a boatman take me round the island . |
| 18 | On my last visit I swam in the Grjótagjá pools — a true delight for someone so young and so unused to mixed nude dipping . |
| 19 | On my last visit I noticed that an image of James Joyce had been engraved on a tiny glass window on the seat behind me , and other historical figures literally emerged from the woodwork when I looked a little closer around the bar . |
| 20 | On its new journey it was taken in turn by bike , canoe , sail boat , runners , riders , cyclists and walkers to the north-west , on to Skye and ultimately to Ness in Lewis , where the islanders have long had links with North Rona . |
| 21 | On its pharyngeal surface it bears lateral sclerotized pieces known as tormae . |
| 22 | On her right hand she had a large pile of blanks . |
| 23 | She wore the " uniform " of a house congaie — a long black skirt and a white blouse-cloth tied in the small of her back to leave her arms and shoulders bare ; on her dark hair she wore a scrap of cloth , also of white . |
| 24 | On her first night she went to eat at Rosalie 's , the cheap restaurant Epstein had recommended . |
| 25 | On her best form she is a cut above the rest , but Carson 's mount , Princess Sobieska , could be a dangerous rival . |
| 26 | When the sun played on her golden hair it was as bright as the copper warming pan which Sarah put between the sheets on winter nights . |
| 27 | She 's been taking lessons at the Swallow flight centre since she was fourteen — now , on her seventeenth birthday she 's at last allowed to fly solo . |
| 28 | On her last visit I 'd been unable to take my eyes off her gold earrings and her bangles . |
| 29 | Late at night she kept up her journal and wrote her column for J.D. , and on her last visit he had offered her a post on his editorial staff , a full-time one , when she had finished her East End stint , as he called it . |
| 30 | ( 68 ) Ianthe Ambrose could have gone overboard any time after 9.10 , when she was seen to leave the lecture , and on her own statement she had been no swimmer . |