Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NIBA too had to battle all the way against the PBA , but they only failed on one rink — that skipped by Rathfriland 's Gary McIlroy was beaten 26–14 by Eamon McCann . |
| 2 | The next top up was n't so good as it only worked on one side and all the pain was concentrated in one place . |
| 3 | As Cnut himself only died on 12 November 1035 , it looks as though Alfred , and doubtless Edward too , were poised to act . |
| 4 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 5 | I only put on ten pounds — in fact I did look rather skinny amongst all the other opera singers . |
| 6 | Also I just played on six tunes on Bruce Hornsby 's new record , with Bonnie Raitt and Phil Collins . |
| 7 | She was bright and she was presentable , which meant that she already scored on two counts over the help that they 'd hired last year . |
| 8 | For us in Italy , war finally came on 10 june 1940 , when Mussolini declared war on France , which was already on its knees , and on Britain , whose soldiers had been driven out of Europe . |
| 9 | Liberation finally came on 10 May 1945 . |
| 10 | One closure — the Clayton West branch service which ran from Huddersfield — finally succumbed on 22 January 1983 , because the West Yorkshire PTA declined to provide the subsidy . |
| 11 | Inevitably , however , the teacher-training target had to be adjusted downwards as the DES successively announced cuts in teacher-training provision in England and Wales before , in July 1977 , it finally settled on 2,900 places . |
| 12 | Shatila finally collapsed on 27 June 1988 , followed by Bourj el-Brajneh a few days later . |
| 13 | An abandoned salt mine near Carrickfergus , Northern Ireland , showed signs of activity in September and early October 1990 , and finally collapsed on 19 October , causing a depression 200 metres in diameter and 7 metres deep [ see photograph on page 19 ] . |
| 14 | She has never possessed boots or winter shoes : " I ca n't afford closed-in shoes , so I always wear sandals and in the winter I just put on two pairs of socks . " |
| 15 | I just stood on three bits when I come in . |
| 16 | The postponement of the opera ( it eventually opened on 13 January ) meant that Nannerl , who reached Munich on 4 January 1775 , was able to hear the first performance . |
| 17 | On 5–7 May the Schutzkorps took part in the mass exodus via the Loibl Pass into Austria where it formally surrendered on 12 May to 1st Guards Brigade , under 6 Armoured Div , and settled in Viktring camp , a few miles south-west of Klagenfurt , with other Yugoslav refugees ( see below ) . |
| 18 | " They behaved like imbeciles " , he dismissively remarked on 30 September . |
| 19 | Replaced by a stagestruck girl of fourteen , recruited locally , she would be superficially trained in a matter of hours by the Head Girl then , absolutely terrified out of her wits , be put on stage the same night to pacify the Producer , for having paid for eight costumes for a number , he usually insisted on eight bodies filling them , whether or not they knew the routine . |
| 20 | He also reported on eight occasions where departments had spent more than the sums authorised by Parliament and had incurred excess votes . |
| 21 | Bishops then turned up the pressure in a search for an equaliser , and it nearly came on seventy minutes as yet another debut man , Tommy Callanan blasted the ball against the underside of the ball from literally yards out when it was easier to score . |
| 22 | I also worked on twelve fences , trying very hard to find some sort of pattern . |
| 23 | While the idea of the two-stage revolution : liberation first , communism later : could be described as primitive Leninism , it may be seen that Ho 's approach to Communism was also two-track : town and country : not necessarily in that order : and his Revolutionary Youth League also functioned on two levels : the mass nationalist party and the inner core of Tam Tam Xa hotheads who were to be the nucleus of a future communist party . |
| 24 | After denying knowledge of the leak to the House , apparently to protect the Prime Minister , Leon Brittan , the Secretary for Trade , also resigned on 24 January . |
| 25 | Gabriel Tacchino 's recordings of Poulenc 's solo piano music originally appeared on three LPs and here resurface on two CDs . |
| 26 | Space does not allow a full description of Harry 's successful progress from Brussels ( as Jean Henri de Smat , a deaf and dumb basket maker ) and then through France , to Switzerland , which Harry eventually reached on 14 October 1943 . |
| 27 | It fell to William , the only son left in London , to prove the will , which he duly did on 22 October at the Principal Probate Registry ; the body was laid to rest at Abney Park Cemetery , Stoke Newington , grave no. 66,417 . |
| 28 | Originally a sial crust had enveloped the earth , but it then split on one side and compressed into the solid mass of the present-day continents . |
| 29 | Baron Hans-Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza officially confirmed on 12 February that within one or two months he will agree to the permanent disposition of his 800 paintings now leased to the Spanish government and housed in the Palace of Villahermosa , Madrid ( just across the road from the Prado ) and at the Monastery of Pedralbes , Barcelona . |
| 30 | A new programme of work in this field has been prepared by the Centre Directors which officially commenced on 1 April 1985 . |