Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv prt] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac . |
2 | Unfortunately this fell out on the third ascent . |
3 | However , Jacques Etienne never forgot his Hebridean origins and in 1826 set off on the long , difficult journey to his father 's home at Howbeg . |
4 | I could n't imagine what she expected to tell them if they all came back on the same day . |
5 | We all took off on the last hundred yards ' dash and I was mildly surprised to find that the first man past the post was myself — and I was n't really out of breath . |
6 | A fourth squeaked through on a single disputed vote . |
7 | Number 3 started out on the left wing with Nicholson again . |
8 | An external 2-pole 5-way switch will then be needed and the circuit shown in Fig. 13 built up on a small board . |
9 | Only 25 of the forty aircraft entered were ready to start , and then several dropped out on the first leg due to mechanical problems . |
10 | Garth McCartney and Philip Young were the only drivers who could challenge Emerson but they both went out on the second stage , McCartney retiring with broken throttle linkage and Young crashing . |