Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 2 | In the end , he has lost out on the grounds of inferior physique . |
| 3 | words , some future researched , that the printer here , missed that bit , you know , she should have said , and her mother 's name , but her mother 's got missed out on the proofs or something , I do n't , this is the kind of thing that happens , of course . |
| 4 | She suspects that she may get rather more exposure to outpatient clinics and theatre sessions than her medical colleagues because they get bogged down on the wards with tasks that she is not allowed to do . |
| 5 | Filth , dust , pollution , children getting run over on the roads , road traffic . |
| 6 | Now they get knocked down on the roads . |
| 7 | On 11 November 1918 bells and cheers rang out all over France on Armistice morning , and Modigliani can not have missed out on the celebrations . |
| 8 | Having missed out on the runners-up spot in the league by just one point , this cup final victory is a successful note on which to end the season . |
| 9 | Toni gets to work ALEC GILROY may have walked out on the Rovers Return , but 16-year-old Toni Canning is more than ready to take over from Britain 's favourite landlord . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , that — I , er — got cut up on the rocks canoeing , Matron . |
| 11 | He had a high-rolling joint on the SS Nocturne , a ship anchored outside the limits , and some nasty rumours had floated back on the tides along with a well-dressed corpse or two . |
| 12 | It seemed that NoS was going to be the first to tap the huge reservoir of people who had given up on the papers altogether . |
| 13 | But here was a youth so far ahead of his time that if he had turned up on the streets of London sixty or seventy years later , he would still have been recognised as a sure sign of an alarmingly unrivalled degeneration among the young . |
| 14 | They 've got in on the shelves there . |
| 15 | The defence lawyers had walked out on the grounds that the trial lacked procedural guarantees , and that the court , as a military one , had no jurisdiction . |
| 16 | She was not proud to have been the cause of splitting her family up ; nor could she forget how her father 's love had turned to disgust ; and how could she easily reveal the shame which she had brought down on the Wards ? |
| 17 | And something 's changed in the intervening time , I mean I know there 's aggravation and times are hard , I know we 've cut back on the hours and the rest , but there 's a lot of things that are n't good . |
| 18 | we did , some had gone out on the plates and then I had three boxes left and I was going round giving them out . |
| 19 | Great thicknesses of pumice and ash had piled up on the slopes of Vesuvius above Herculaneum , and this loose material very rapidly became saturated by torrential rainstorms which may have been triggered by the eruption cloud itself : the dust particles acting as nuclei on which water vapour could condense to form droplets . |
| 20 | Insecure Christian men feeling threatened have fallen back on the Scriptures with authoritarian tunnel vision , while Christian women are learning Greek and Hebrew in order to find a loophole to invalidate this ‘ yoke of bondage ’ . |
| 21 | You no doubt have picked up on the typos etc. but it is sometimes useful to have another ‘ eye ’ . |
| 22 | The largest animals are quite brown in their worn coats , especially after they have dried out on the rocks , while the young born this year are still dark greyish-black . |