Example sentences of "[verb] on the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time I wondered how any improvements could be visual , when I learnt that players could ignore March winds and appear on the 1st tee in shirt and slacks . |
| 2 | I knelt on the wooden floor in the East Yorkshire winter praying , " Dear God if you exist let me be warmed . " |
| 3 | It was rebuilt on the same site in 1870 and united with the National Society . |
| 4 | The Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1837 and then rebuilt on the same site in 1877 . |
| 5 | Accusing the National Farmers Unions of both Scotland and England of being too parochial and not au fait with what was happening on the agricultural scene in the rest of Europe , Gerald Biffen , Mains of Arnage , Ellon , said Scottish farmers should take the initiative and send a party of working members to undertake a study tour in selected areas . |
| 6 | that , that is included on the other side in the three hundred pounds that went out . |
| 7 | But all is forgotten on the last lap in Peel Park through the cheering lines of spectators to the finishing line . ’ |
| 8 | The church stands on the highest point in the village . |
| 9 | The monument stands on the first cross-roads in front of the Carmel Road entrance to West Cemetery . |
| 10 | Composed in Holland , where Lambert and the Sadlers Wells Ballet Company were trapped on the German invasion in 1940 , it is a lovely and peaceful work , its unease subtle communicated : a fitting birthday-gift to Vaughan Williams , then in the years between his Fourth Symphony and his Fifth . |
| 11 | With macari 's arrival on hold again , Frank Connor will take the players to Seamill tomorrow to concentrate on the European business in hand . |
| 12 | Larry covers ‘ working-class sport for the working classes ’ , one of his classics being the time he reported on the local-government elections in Westminster . |
| 13 | The nimble pack horses , with a capacity to carry twenty stone , moved on the narrow trails in a train of twenty horses , connected one to another by plaited tail to following halter . |
| 14 | When he sensed that the politicians were afraid enough of the army to come to terms with him ( as they seemed to be after learning that troops based in Algeria had seized control of the island of Corsica on 24 – 25 May ) , he flashed a red light to Algiers and moved on the political front in Paris . |
| 15 | Perhaps because after an almost fatal spasm , Coleridge thought his marriage was now bearable — although on this eight-day storming and often precipitous walk around the mountains and lakes he was to write a passionate letter to the woman he desired as his mistress while perched on the highest mountain in England . |
| 16 | and I just do n't want to move out of being a student because I find that , that more and more problems are , you know I 'm coming up with because , like Melanie saying there is problems with child care , there is erm positive discrimination against women , and we are always discriminated on the sexual harassment in the college is unbelievable and we have to campaign against this and that 's what 's gon na keep me being a student . |
| 17 | I 'm not going to bother to comment on the individual allegations in the letter or cite examples on non-Welsh violence from the same period . |
| 18 | He took deep breaths , trying to calm his mind and soul so he could concentrate on the recent events in the Tower . |
| 19 | He could not have stayed away for long because in June of that year he was captured by the Dragoons in Knockdow House in Carrick and confined on the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth to await trial . |
| 20 | I would place a great deal of emphasis on my own impressions , the comments of people in authority and I would focus on the key personalities in the ‘ drama ’ . |
| 21 | Guy lives on the sixth floor in let me see , it 's on the it 's if , if you 're going along the corridor it 's just past the final year notice boards , it does have a number , I 've forgotten which one it is but it 's on the right hand side . |
| 22 | Now he concentrated on the mysterious murders in the forest . |
| 23 | Carefully observing the model , George concentrated on the tiny creases in the ears , on arms and legs . |
| 24 | Rodney Marsh and Alan Parry commentate on the biggest thing in Boston since the Tea Party . |
| 25 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |
| 26 | Lapland buntings Calcarius lapponicus winter in temperate and subpolar latitudes and breed on the southern tundra in summer ( Tryon and MacLean , 1980 ) . |
| 27 | Whoever came in first turned on the electric heater in the hall to take the chill off the house , and then lit the gas fire in the kitchen . |
| 28 | Ronnie Sales has helped to brighten up the lives of residents living on the Cosy Estate in Sunderland — in more ways than one ! |
| 29 | Data will also be collected on the changing context in which the complementary medical professions are developing , especially orthodox medical attitudes to complementary medicine and relevant government policy , both at national government and at EEC level . |
| 30 | Trail ( 1905 ) named a short list of plants collected on the Flannan Isles in 1904 by an ornithologist , W. Eagle Clarke , and similarly Bennett ( 1907 ) named additional species gathered in 1899 by W. J. Gibson . |