Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked on that occasion for considerably more information . |
| 2 | My right hon. Friend will recall that I asked on 18 July for an inquiry , and my constituents will welcome what my right hon. Friend has said today . |
| 3 | I lost it in 1963 on the A30 west of Salisbury when I skidded on some diesel oil and rolled over and over . |
| 4 | In addition , it will be eligible for up to £3.66 million under the urban crime fund initiative that I announced on 26 November . |
| 5 | I announced on 15 January the establishment , with the joint support of British Aerospace , of Hutton grammar school in Lancashire as the first voluntary-aided technology school . |
| 6 | I share my hon Friend 's appreciation of the value and importance of the large reforms proposed in the Bill of 1939 , and when I decided , as I announced on 23rd March , to appoint an Advisory Council to assist in the preparation of a programme of reforms , I certainly had it in mind that many of the proposals in that Bill — improved it may be by further consideration and fresh ideas — might find a place in such a programme . |
| 7 | The European arts festival , which I announced on 9 December will be a rewarding and imaginative way of celebrating our Presidency of the European Community in the second half of the year . |
| 8 | If this is so , can you please let me have one of the two data only copies I requested on 14 February ( Ref. 020 ) ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Later , when I consulted on another matter a British doctor who has been in Kampala some thirty years , he stated that he ‘ never advises patients to take mefloquine . |
| 11 | Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over . |
| 12 | I got on first-name terms with the other managers-in-the-making . |
| 13 | I soon felt hungry and thirsty , and my first food was fruit which I found on some trees near a river . |
| 14 | The only wheel I found on this trip is still very much in business , grinding corn on two pairs of stones . |
| 15 | Not as good as yesterday evening when I dined on roast chicken , not very well cooked , but certainly much better than this homely fare . |
| 16 | The R/T was bad and I thought he said ‘ below you ’ so I concentrated on that section of the sky almost exclusively , leaving it to Dick to watch above us . |
| 17 | Yet if I concentrated on each footstep , I should soon be safely home . |
| 18 | I was also gratified by the immense good will and friendship towards Britain which I encountered on all sides . |
| 19 | Er yes , wh yes , I came on full rate then . |
| 20 | I played on four albums for Barry Gibb ; I worked for Dionne Warwick on the ‘ Heartbreaker ’ and some film music for ‘ Staying Alive ’ . |
| 21 | During the next two days I advised on industrial relations problems in catering , computers and property services and sent back three more folders of work to my line manager . |
| 22 | I taught on all makes of machine and have also worked in stores and at exhibitions , selling knitting and sewing machines . |
| 23 | I touched on those points yesterday when I appeared before the Treasury Select Committee . |
| 24 | And erm , the other aspect , the last aspect that gave us er anxiety was something I touched on this morning when I joined in at the end of the Selby discussion . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Soon after this I embarked on another essay , under what stimulus I do not now remember ; but I had formed the habit , not of revising or tinkering with an unsatisfactory piece , but of writing something else instead . |
| 27 | Electroluminescent backlighting , lasting 10 hours between charges , gives a clear display even in total darkness , as I discovered on one dive to 36 metres . |
| 28 | The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent . |
| 29 | I remember the tired yet excited feeling when , as a youth studying Russian at Cambridge during my military service , I escaped on occasional weekends , taking the train to King 's Cross , and then the tube to Paddington . |
| 30 | I landed on those ones . |