Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [vb past] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | THE BOOKS YOU ACTUALLY READ ON HOLIDAY : |
2 | The cost in horses and men was heavy , and the feeding of the former a significant outlay , especially when corn prices were high : " Robert Russell , proprietor of the daily fly wagons which set out from London … to Falmouth , feels much pleasure in being able , owing to the blessings derived from the late harvest , to reduce the advances he lately made on carriage . " |
3 | The ruler continued to enjoy , unless he were unusually vicious or unlucky , a respect which sometimes verged on worship . |
4 | Other public bodies who actively campaigned on behalf of the constitutional amendment were the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties . |
5 | The critique of male sexuality which originally focused on rape , developed through analyses of child sexual abuse and non-stranger rape — and later pornography . |
6 | Lloyd was wearing the bottom half of a pale grey pinstripe suit with turn-ups which probably took on board water when it rained . |
7 | She felt intimidated ; these men were the most powerful in the land , men you only saw on television or in the press . |
8 | There is little doubt that the popular newspapers and the police embrace the copycat phenomenon with enthusiasm , so they may be misleading on many occasions with the supposed examples they sometimes put on display . |
9 | Less dramatic but equally puzzling would be the problem posed by the patient who deliberately went on hunger-strike in order to end his suffering . |