Example sentences of "they [vb past] on the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rising through two floors of the White Tower , was the chapel of St. John where the lady Alianor and Joan attended Mass each morning : it was as they returned on the second morning that Joan voiced her enquiry . |
| 2 | The group had held a press conference two days earlier at which they called on the Fourth Communist Party Congress ( Cuarto Congreso del Partido Comunista ) to instigate radical political reforms and also attempted to distribute a statement to this effect to Congress delegates . |
| 3 | In patients C , E , and F with high values in the test it was difficult to control the infection and they died on the second , 134th , and 95th day after operation respectively . |
| 4 | When they resumed on the third afternoon after time lost for rain , they lost quick wickets , and at 214 for 6 seemed to have wasted the advantage . |
| 5 | They sat on the second row of choir benches to the left of the altar . |