Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In private it would seem that he was becoming increasingly fixated on the idea of a Third World War . |
| 2 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 3 | The book that Melissa had bought earlier lay on the passenger seat ; as she went to remove it , it slipped from its wrappings . |
| 4 | But rule also depended on a degree of common purpose between kings and at least a proportion of the secular magnates . |
| 5 | Only six out of 15 northbound buses due to run actually appeared on the route . |
| 6 | This left both distrusted on the doorstep . |
| 7 | ‘ During the year , work also commenced on the upgrading of the Belfast-Dublin service , a four year project being carried out jointly will our colleagues in Irish Rail . |