Example sentences of "[coord] on [art] [det] occasion " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case where the complainant had seen the assailant only once or on a few occasions before might well be treated as that of identification rather than recognition . |
| 2 | There was little enough fun in her life ; she had no friends , she rarely left the house and on the few occasions she did , it was never on her own and her only contacts were with her mother , the tutors , some of the servants and Patrick . |
| 3 | I talked utter rubbish for hours , and on the few occasions that I faltered Lorne would break in and take over until I had recovered my strength . |
| 4 | Joe Fitzgerald was so much older and moved in a different circle , and on the few occasions that Sarah had seen him he had shown no interest in her , but she liked him and knew that he enjoyed reading and poetry as much as she did . |
| 5 | De Gaulle , at Brazzaville in 1944 , may have believed that France , of all the imperial powers , would choose nobly and liberally in a new era ; on a more mundane level and on the same occasion it was also agreed that ‘ access to the riches of all that bears the French name is the most certain measure of our country 's return to grandeur ’ . |
| 6 | Alice never spoke of him except casually but on the few occasions , like last night 's dinner party , when she had seen them together they seemed to have the intuitive mutual awareness , an instinctive response to the other 's needs , more typical of a long-standing successful marriage than of an apparently casual fraternal relationship . |
| 7 | It was n't that the Captain had anything specific to ask him , but on the few occasions they had worked together the Marshal had always had something helpful to offer . |
| 8 | They had seldom before entered Applecross café but on the few occasions before had been given , purely accidentally of course , some ‘ fat in five seconds ’ . |