Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh it was a hard working night for all the women and the dances went on t four o'clock in the morning and a wedding nearly went on all night . |
| 2 | If Jennens thought that Leapor had a future as a poet , Leapor also relied on this woman 's criticism and encouragement . |
| 3 | For us in Italy , war finally came on 10 june 1940 , when Mussolini declared war on France , which was already on its knees , and on Britain , whose soldiers had been driven out of Europe . |
| 4 | A farmhouse probably stood on this site at the time of the Great Plague . |
| 5 | Wilson self-consciously capitalized on that supremacy in his ‘ First Hundred Days ’ of dynamic action , a deliberate imitation of the Kennedy style in early 1960 . |
| 6 | The Assembly also agreed on closer co-operation on the environment , on regional security and in the fight against drug trafficking . |
| 7 | Alluding to ceasefire violations , Qian also called on each faction to do its utmost to achieve reconciliation and to abide by the peace accord . |
| 8 | Spoke machines were acquired , sent to Wolverton for alteration and the fitting of cutter blocks and , together with drawings and fixtures for the other operations , sent to other firms also engaged on this type of work . |
| 9 | On April 10th in the year nineteen hundred and eighty five — the legions again marched on Royal Bath — well , fifty of us by coach , car and rail — we had come from all over the country to join a contingent of local enthusiasts like lambs to the slaughter at Bath University for the Medau Easter Course . |
| 10 | The wind of God certainly blew on that man , Christian though he already was ; he has not become a paragon of virtue over night , but the manifest change in his disposition and attitudes can not be denied . |
| 11 | This is an imaginary trip during the summer of 1957 when steam still ruled on British Rail metals . |
| 12 | Ministers also agreed on minimum excise duty rates for cigarettes , beer , and wine , but not spirits . |
| 13 | People of position never put on formal evening dress on a steamer … |