Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 2 | These funny-looking blokes just turned up on the doorstep with rolls of carpet over their shoulders asking if we wanted to buy them . |
| 3 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 4 | In February 1973 an eruption suddenly burst out on the tiny island of Heimaey , and for a time it seemed as though the town of Heimaey , Iceland 's biggest fishing port , would be destroyed . |
| 5 | ‘ Some of our team just turned up on the night , pulled and had a belly full of beer . ’ |
| 6 | Very quickly , however , the three young people began to exert over one another the complex mutual attraction which remained characteristic of their relationship , and more than three weeks passed before Coleridge finally set off on the road back to Stowey . |
| 7 | Wedgwood sales director Paul Hutchinson said : ‘ Our focus also remained firmly on the UK because the home market is our largest single market . |
| 8 | Ibn Taghribirdi gives an even more specific date for the quarrel between Hamid al-Din and Molla Gurani , namely Saturday 2 Jumada II 844/Saturday 29 October 1440 : the banishment of Molla Gurani doubtless followed hard on the quarrel . |
| 9 | Pairs also bred occasionally on the sandstone cliffs and in disused chalk pits . |
| 10 | A further delay ensued and it was not until July that the two great armies finally set forth on the third anniversary of the Battle of Hattin . |
| 11 | Alison Wyeth was ninth , but Sonia O'Sullivan just missed out on the bronze for Ireland , who have never had a female Olympic medallist . |
| 12 | Even fate appeared to be on our side : when the review copy of Madstock finally turned up on the morning of the interview , your hack managed to catch a full five seconds of guitarist Chris Foreman wandering across the park before the VHS started eating the tape . |
| 13 | Clemenza made an obvious starting point for Oliver , since he had also been commissioned to compose new recitatives for the opera in place of those which Mozart 's incompetent pupil Süssmayr reputedly dashed off on the coach trip to the Prague première . |
| 14 | The controversy immediately focussed not on the substantive issue ( although all the major parties apart from the UNR opposed the change ) but on the procedure which de Gaulle had proposed . |
| 15 | Julius simply pressed harder on the accelerator and the powerful car responded instantly . |
| 16 | * Russian scientists have reported large numbers of seals dying of blood cancer in the White and Barents Seas , allegedly as a result of radioactive waste resulting from the nuclear tests previously carried out on the Novaya Zemlya peninsula [ see Nuclear Power section ] . |
| 17 | What was discovered was that , in general , the researchers could manipulate the passages in all kinds of ways without the Cornell students being thrown : if-then relations could be missed out , the logical structure of the passage could be masked by inserting a crucial sentence in the wrong place ; yet the Cornell students still performed well on the recall tests . |
| 18 | My drawings often ended up on the classroom wall . |
| 19 | By contrast , environmentalists often focused instead on the meanings of the symptoms they observed in their patients , and drew attention to the rearing and experiential difficulties a person may have undergone during their formative and developmental years . |
| 20 | He sat down and picked up the sheaf of papers neatly set out on the top of his desk . |
| 21 | Mrs Thatcher was known to dislike the rating system but the rates continued to climb , largely because the Treasury steadily cut back on the grants paid to local authorities . |
| 22 | In the past five years my Honda Accord would n't start in Scotland ( the earth wire from the battery fell off ) and my Honda Quintet quietly conked out on the M40 ( cause never found ) . |
| 23 | These occasions bore no fruit , however , and the effectiveness of his power really depended more on the skilled team he had behind him — with Sir Henry Self coordinating their relations with Whitehall from his own intimate knowledge as an ex-mandarin — and on the strength of the pressure of argument which they maintained . |