Example sentences of "on [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It dawned on me last season , as we took a first-minute lead over Carlton Town West Saxons , that perhaps it was Fate that plucked pink , 544 , from the hat . |
| 2 | Well er Fred and his wife went several times on them last year |
| 3 | We made up some ground on them last weekend and have to continue to do so . |
| 4 | But I ate myself silly on them last night and made myself feel sick so I 'll never eat them again now . |
| 5 | The result is of that is not fortunate that they 've been delayed but that in fact we have as much money to spend on them next year from the capital receipts as we will have spent this year , so in a sense we , we 're not going backwards there either . |
| 6 | ‘ I continued to play for Clapton and Arsenal , and signed professional in 1930 — on my twentieth birthday . |
| 7 | I suppose it is a bit crass to say the one with me on it — on my 45th birthday , I think — but that 's the one alright . |
| 8 | Then we started , in May , to go to Germany — Munchen Gladbach in the Ruhr area on 11/12 May , Happily it was not the Ruhr that I knew on my second tour , a desperate place to be at then . |
| 9 | Later , over a tandoori dinner , I was on my second lager , and something , I do n't know what , got into me . |
| 10 | On my second outing with the boots I was trying to assess how watertight they were as it was raining heavily . |
| 11 | Red 2 experienced no return fire , on either of his attacks , and I experienced none on my second attack , during which I closed range to 100 yds and concentrated on engines of E/A with no visible effect . |
| 12 | Then in 1986 I moved down to London , played keyboards with a cabaret group and worked on my second book . ’ |
| 13 | A size 6 hook is tied tot eh line on my second rod and this also receives attention from my sharpening stone . |
| 14 | On my second visit , I made tea , on the third I took the dog for a walk . |
| 15 | On my second attempt at the wood I walked the path end to end to try to judge if my feelings that the place was of good age were wrong . |
| 16 | I 'm on my second side ! |
| 17 | I made a bad mistake on my second lot of commercials — for Skol — by letting myself be persuaded by other people against my own instincts , so from then on I was very firm about what I wanted to do and what I was prepared to do , and it 's made my life easy . |
| 18 | Erm , no questions on my second set but I 'm very grateful for the er spokesman for their reply . |
| 19 | I 'm on my seventh question . |
| 20 | I kept my birthday a secret , except that some students wanted me to sign some books , and as I signed them I put the date and I happened to say that ‘ I am signing this on my 44th birthday ’ , and after that the news spread mysteriously and my whole class greeted me with ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in English , and today , when I saw the other class , they sang ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in Portuguese . |
| 21 | This explains why the latter can not be used when there is no reference at all to something in the present which makes the infinitive 's event an impending occurrence as is the case in : ( 17 ) My babe-in-arms will be 59 on my 89th birthday . |
| 22 | It is not surprising that the Czech novelist Josef Skvorecky should be keen on My First Loves . |
| 23 | As the train approached Edinburgh 's Caledonian Station I found I was as nervous as on my first journey to Bletchley . |
| 24 | I picked up a young man on my first journey out of Durham about 6.30 on the morning . |
| 25 | This was the same island we had visited on my first trip . |
| 26 | I gave it one of its earliest tests on my first trip to Coombe Abbey at Coventry , where I had sixty pounds of bream ( weighed ) and only stopped catching when I ran out of groundbait . |
| 27 | On my first venture into the spanking new penthouse offices , clutching some very crap live reviews of some extremely crap bands , I encountered a bizarre race of pointy-headed mutants who had remained hidden from civilisation for countless generations . |
| 28 | Correcting this at home takes a minute or two with needle and thread — but I did n't have a sewing kit with me on my first outing . |
| 29 | On my first day in Alaska I made a bee-line for the local radio station KFAR where I met the manager , Augie Hiebert and we spent the rest of the day talking shop . |
| 30 | ‘ On my first day I felt so self-conscious , like a country bumpkin . ’ |