Example sentences of "[vb past] on [det] occasion " in BNC.
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| 1 | Athelstan cursed in some of the language Cranston used on such occasions . |
| 2 | U K market tried on several occasions to break through and remain above the two thousand level today , but confidence remains low and the Footsie one hundred index was unable to find support . |
| 3 | It seemed on this occasion she had met her match . |
| 4 | Mr Bullins , porter at Magdalen College for forty years , and senior porter for the last ten , put on his bowler hat and the bland expression he always assumed on such occasions , and walked to staircase III in New Buildings , overlooking the Deer Park , where E. A. J. de Chavigny had some of the most desirable rooms in college . |
| 5 | Once again , the proposal was not original , having twice been considered by the Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders in the 1950s , but rejected on both occasions . |
| 6 | None of us knows what happened on that occasion , and it is sad that the participants can not remember , either . |
| 7 | This happened on several occasions , with the kisses and hugs becoming longer and more passionate as time went on . |
| 8 | A further echo of the Koln Ju88 strike reverberated the following evening when most of the crew were out in Cambridge celebrating survival and , as it happened on these occasions , most crews had their own favourite watering places . |
| 9 | Well you say it should open it very quickly , what happened on this occasion ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not saying it happened on this occasion , but it is not unknown for a private company to take a loss on government contracts to get a foot in the door . ’ |
| 11 | Programmes likely to produce such action ought , rather , to be spotted within the BBC in advance and either adjusted suitably or else supported by the Governors in such a way that the politicians would be quietly told , in effect , that if they wished to object they risked on this occasion a larger row than they might want . |
| 12 | With his television news background and now intimate knowledge of Middle East drugs trafficking , Coleman helped Ross and Silverman prepare what was generally considered to be as balanced and authoritative a survey of narco-terrorism as the media had ever presented to the American public , a contribution which they both generously acknowledged on several occasions afterwards and which subsequently led to Coleman 's appearance on NBC News after the Flight 103 disaster , although neither of them were aware then or before of his DIA/NARCOG affiliations . |
| 13 | But for some reason she forgot on this occasion and I did not stop to remind her . |
| 14 | The public silence was broken early in 1987 by Marxism Today , who can seldom resist a bandwagon , even if they often fall under the wheels in the process ; and the particular bandwagon they joined on this occasion was the one about what the Tories had labelled ‘ Loony Left ’ councils . |
| 15 | The young Ernest , who grew older as the years passed by , attended a local school , and although energetic and successful in all school activities , he twice ran away from home , though he returned on both occasions . |
| 16 | The collectorship of supply , as Montrose remarked on another occasion , was ‘ an affair that too often divides neighbours ’ , and he might have added , it also divided political interests . |
| 17 | The Derby defence had no answer to the pulsating attacking moves made by Birmingham and Saville threatened on several occasions to open his account with Derbys defence in total disarray . |
| 18 | Yes , it 's just a plaque and erm but The thing that erm I enjoyed on that occasion was meeting the other conservationists who 'd been called up . |
| 19 | Malpas , the captain , normally deals with such intrusions efficiently , but blundered on this occasion with a slack header towards his goalkeeper which Wright intercepted and guided beyond the advancing Main . |
| 20 | I tell you in all candour that the option no longer exists , and that , insofar as it ever did exist , it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy , followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step . ’ ? |
| 21 | On another occasion he was spotted by an opposing Derby County player lying drunk in the street the night before an important league match , a scene that he repeated on several occasions in London 's late-night jazz clubs . |
| 22 | But although she became pregnant several times , she miscarried on each occasion . |
| 23 | Many Frenchmen whom I met on several occasions at the Training Centre at Achnacarry and on the South Coast of England had also gone , either killed or wounded . |
| 24 | Of the speeches he made on these occasions we have such various descriptions it is impossible to be sure what he actually said . |
| 25 | Lady Selvedge then rose and made her little speech — the one she always made on these occasions , for the ‘ cause ’ , whether Church , Conservative Party or District Nursing Association , was always a good one and it was safe to urge her hearers to spend just a little more than they thought they could afford , however relative the amount might be . |
| 26 | ( He failed on this occasion . ) |
| 27 | I asked on that occasion for considerably more information . |
| 28 | Imagine how much time and effort would be required if each speaker had to establish the denotation of each term he produced on each occasion of use . |
| 29 | Superior qualifications were , indeed , by no means a guarantee of preferment , on the testimony of David Scott himself , who admitted on another occasion that ‘ there was some altercation about the superior qualifications of the other candidates , but on my shewing the chairman the anxiety I had to provide for your friend , with his assistance I carried it ’ . |
| 30 | Even the songs they sang on such occasions had a defiance in them , always remembering of course they had a drink in them at the time . |