Example sentences of "[vb past] on such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Athelstan cursed in some of the language Cranston used on such occasions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | so they only had them , I think the major , they relied on such reports , as the strong traffic reason at that stage . |
| 4 | In these circumstances which often arose on such operations , our Chief Engineer was wont to complain bitterly that his injectors or blowers , or what have you , would soon be fouled up . |
| 5 | Prime was brought down when to escape a hostile bid from MAI Systems Corp , it agreed to one of the last — and most doomed — leveraged buyouts in the computer industry by a group led by J H Whitney & Co , just before the boom fell on such transactions , which saddled Prime with a debt burden that at the time looked unsustainable — as so it has proved . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Hatherley ball to raise money for a hospice charity had become an important even ; in Gloucestershire because Ayling did what people craved on such occasions : he brought them the rich and famous whom they usually saw only on their television screens or in their newspapers . |
| 8 | They wrote on such subjects as education , art , philosophy and science . |
| 9 | ( There was a long correspondence in a camp newspaper about the evil effects which female parts in a play had on such people . ) |
| 10 | Almost any small feature in a building or even a field wall may say something of the structures that once stood on such sites . |
| 11 | I began to wonder how much of our knowledge of Roman Britain depended on such figments of the imagination — a depressing thought ! |
| 12 | At first sight it might seem that Urban was hardly in a position to provide it ; he was without military resources of his own , and depended on such allies as he had to defend him against the Emperor Henry IV , who still refused to recognize him as pope . |