Example sentences of "[adj] occasions he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show . |
| 2 | To the Nuer , god appears both as lofty and remote , though omnipotent , while sometimes approachable and near-at-hand : indeed on some occasions he is felt to be too close for comfort and is earnestly beseeched to withdraw his presence and leave his people in peace . |
| 3 | For the question is , how can he be sure that in observing two similar individuals on two different occasions he is in fact observing the same pair ? |
| 4 | Beginning with ‘ La Turquie ’ in L'Europe galante , in which he set out to portray ‘ as far as was possible on the stage … the passionate nature of Sultanas ’ , he associated E major with the emotion of jealousy on four of the six occasions he employed it . |
| 5 | Nevertheless on such occasions he gave the impression to friends and acquaintances that in some ways he had mellowed . |
| 6 | The Palace defence , once as leaky as MI5 ( remember the 9-0 defeat by Liverpool ) was under pressure most of the time but withstood it , and the striker Bright , on the three occasions he was given a chance , hit the bar once and scored twice , with characteristic headers , giving Palace their first away win in the League this season . |
| 7 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 8 | On three occasions he was referred by the court for a psychiatric report on account of his oddness , lack of sociability , occasional outbursts of violence and a suspicion that he was taking illegal drugs . |
| 9 | This happens on eight occasions in all ; on three occasions he is thinking about his father and on five occasions he is thinking about his mother . |
| 10 | He said how on three occasions he won but on three occasions he lost . |
| 11 | He said how on three occasions he won but on three occasions he lost . |
| 12 | From the time that I was about ten , I used to look forward to Mr. Golding 's visits , for sometimes on never-to-be-forgotten occasions he would let me go down into the cellar with him . |
| 13 | For Mr Poher this long-drawn out struggle was something new — on the seven previous occasions he had been elected on the first ballot . |
| 14 | On previous occasions he had given me a Tibetan prayer-wheel and a monastery bell which I still cherish . |
| 15 | On the two previous occasions he had retracted his resignation . |
| 16 | When Lewis himself was speaking , it was not always easy to find a tame atheist who was prepared to come along and be mauled in public debate ; for on these occasions he reverted to type and became again the P'daytabird prosecuting an unlikely prisoner in the Belfast police courts . |
| 17 | The old man generally comes to dinner two or three times a week , as he has no one at home to look after him , and on these occasions he generally brings a ‘ bit of bacon ’ with him to replenish the Allen larder . |
| 18 | On these occasions he was perfectly happy to leave me alone in the attic . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The implementation of any policy requires the official to exercise discretion — even if it were possible to prepare a rule-book catering for every eventuality it would probably be undesirable — and on each of these occasions he or she is ‘ making ’ policy . |
| 21 | The stunning view of Dumyat makes a splendid backdrop to the garden , reminding us of the times Sir Monty spent hillwalking on the many occasions he visited Stirling . |
| 22 | Stand-in goalkeeper Graham Mitchell was only called into action three times in the second half , but on two of those occasions he was collecting the ball from the net behind him . |
| 23 | On ceremonial occasions he paraded at Holyroodhouse as a Member of the Queen 's Body Guard . |
| 24 | This happens on eight occasions in all ; on three occasions he is thinking about his father and on five occasions he is thinking about his mother . |
| 25 | On several occasions he left the bathroom feeling weak and drained , only to stop on the dark landing at the onset of another wave of nausea . |
| 26 | The master took the opportunity to complain further to the Board that on several occasions he had drawn the medical officer 's attention to an inmate , William Sabey , who was at times a danger to others and had attempted to stab the labour master . |
| 27 | On several occasions he was driven to the point of resignation . |
| 28 | On several occasions he stood up with some serenity and went to the bathroom , and dived back in again gracelessly scrabbling at his belt . |
| 29 | At times he got impatient , if Rory failed to grasp a point , and on several occasions he glossed over figures that Rory raised a query on , assured him it was all in hand , there was nothing he need bother with . |
| 30 | When he looked up the light was pearly and the sky a blue so tender he could hardly take his eyes off it , with the result that on several occasions he collided with people coming the other way . |