Example sentences of "it [vb past] on [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the meeting a US military excavation team carried out its first MIA search in Cambodia ; it announced on March 23 that it had recently unearthed some remains which were believed to be of members of US television crews killed in Cambodia in 1970 . |
| 2 | It announced on July 15 that an attempted coup had been foiled the previous night . |
| 3 | In addition to Newbury it centred on Reading and Abingdon , about which information is scanty , and had flourished at Wantage during the fifteenth century . |
| 4 | ‘ Why did you come back ? ’ went on Eleanor , her green gaze bright with dislike as it fixed on Jessamy . |
| 5 | Fourteen people aboard a chartered Ilyushin-14 airliner operated by a Chinese tourist company died after it crashed on Oct. 8 in the north-western province of Gansu . |
| 6 | The afternoon sun on my back was gently warming and the light that it cast on Chola 's and Mina 's faces was as clear and richly brown as amber . |
| 7 | It fastened on Mala like a grasping hand and snatched her into the air . |
| 8 | It adopted on April 8 a resolution on establishing a Moscow municipal militia . |
| 9 | Remember when that tree fell down and it banged on Shelley 's window and Shelley was giving it ah ! |
| 10 | It came on July 9th . |
| 11 | The event , when it came on February 19th , was worth the wait . |
| 12 | It came on St Valentines Day , 14 February 1979 . |
| 13 | It happened on Silbury Boulevard in Milton Keynes . |
| 14 | And so well I did n't like what he was doing but at any rate it happened on Sunday morning er , somebody read the lesson and it was Saint , Saint John and there were chapters and of course it was skipping about the verses all over the place , you just got fed up with verses . |
| 15 | it 's a big , in this town it 's kept quiet , it happened on Monday night of course there 's gon na be a bloody big shake up in Lancashire police , it happened in this town there er , er , er a robbery at a bungalow where an old lady were |
| 16 | It rained on April Fool 's Day like it was intent on making wets of all of us ‘ on the just and unjust alike , ’ observed Derek Foster without ( gentleman that he is ) further categorisation . |
| 17 | Sue said it rained on Gregory 's birthday last year . |
| 18 | After closer inspection PA474 was found to be in excellent condition and permission was granted to fly it to Waddington , where it arrived on August 18 , 1965 . |
| 19 | It arrived on August 21 , 1992 . |
| 20 | When it opened on Broadway , in Miller 's words , |
| 21 | The Modern Picture World reported that this ‘ daring ’ film was doing well at the De Kalb theatre in Brooklyn and that when it opened on Broadway the ‘ socialist ’ Upton Sinclair would be present at each performance . |
| 22 | Starring Richard Burton [ q.v. ] and Julie Andrews , it opened on Broadway and was an immediate hit . |
| 23 | Coffee was brought and poured , and the lamp moved to the table behind me , so that it shone on Conchis 's face . |
| 24 | It might just do that , if the new striking partnership forged by Andy Saville and Lenny Johnrose fulfils the promise it showed on Saturday . |
| 25 | This will restore most of the rights sought by the union movement as a reward for their loyalty , and Mr Lyons would like to see it signed on Friday . |
| 26 | Slowly it dawned on Alexander that the tension that he had first noticed was not of specific parts , as he had first presumed , but of himself as a whole being . |
| 27 | It dawned on Loretta that the latter half of Bridget 's remark had been to do with Puddephat 's taste in footwear , not the object she was holding . |
| 28 | Gradually it dawned on Peter that Molland wanted more than confirmation of his decisions and to demonstrate his own honesty : he honestly believed that this numbingly tedious attention to detail was doing Peter a favour by distracting him from his grief . |
| 29 | It dawned on Nutty , reading the programme ( ‘ Start 9 am prompt ’ ) that they had none of them attempted to do the four parts of the competition all on the same day , and she wondered bitterly if she would still be conscious when the results were announced . |
| 30 | It dawned on Masklin later that the giving-out-food woman would n't have been able to see him . |