Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was in March , when eight bombs fell on the outskirts of the village , killing one person and wounding fourteen others , and damaging the convent in which the Dominican nuns lived . |
| 2 | It blew her hair across her face , and some books fell on the floor . |
| 3 | Interested parties disagreed on the interpretation of the findings . |
| 4 | A leg of lamb bounced off her mother 's head ; wooden platters clattered on the walls . |
| 5 | Meanwhile unrest in Franch has spread to Paris ’ main wholesale food market , where more than 800 French fishermen went on the rampage , smashing stalls and weighing scales and leaving hundreds of pounds of fish strews over the ground before clashing with riot police today . |
| 6 | AMERICAN restaurants and government buildings were attacked as French farmers went on the rampage in protest at the cuts agreed in the Gatt trade talks . |
| 7 | Further disparities appeared on the home furnishings front ; the standard English width of 21-inch wallpaper rolls was unknown to American decorators , who worked with a 28-inch standard , mostly vinyl , paper . |
| 8 | Woodlice were miniature armadillos ; tomato-coloured mites scampered on the walls as if the brick was burning their feet ; herds of striped and chequered snails glued up their doorways each autumn ; and sluggish , fragile caterpillars , irritatingly , mummified themselves during the one interesting period of their lives . |
| 9 | Few children lived on the road and residents were mostly retired . |
| 10 | The greatest disorders occurred on the night of 1-2 March , as crowds chanting " High Church and Sacheverell " proceeded to demolish a number of large meeting-houses in London 's West End . |
| 11 | As Mr Torode points out , our liberal forefathers insisted on the importance of testing faiths by submitting them to discussion . |
| 12 | The male working-class vote was , from the start , divided between the existing parties , and when socialist or social democratic parties appeared on the scene they seldom attained the political dominance which the solid support of the workers would have assured for them . |
| 13 | Not only have many such parties appeared on the scene during the present century — the communist parties and anti-colonial parties such as the Indian National Congress — but there is in all socialist parties ( as well as in some right-wing parties , such as the fascist parties of the 1920s ) a persistent element of non-participating opposition . |
| 14 | Bigger nations sat on the fence . |
| 15 | Today there arc motels and take-aways but Kalgoorlie still exudes art atmosphere of bygone days when burly miners danced on the bar of the old Exchange Hotel and gambled fortunes on two-up . |
| 16 | He also objected to having to tone down a description of the 1937 Rape of Nanking , when Japanese troops went on the rampage , killing tens of thousands of Chinese civilians and prisoners . |
| 17 | Last week , a mob of 100 fishermen went on the rampage at Peterhead and destroyed the £200,000 cargo of frozen cod due to be landed by the Russian trawler , Romb . |
| 18 | The imperial troops marched on the capital in pursuit of them , and the city fell with minimal resistance in May 1868 . |
| 19 | The most sobering results came on the patent front . |
| 20 | Later in the year , violent clashes occurred on the streets of |
| 21 | As though to underline the validity of Cassie 's vague but guilt-ridden conclusions , two separate incidents occurred on the Wednesday of that week , each one seemingly innocent and unconnected with the other . |
| 22 | No official estimates existed on the number of potential claimants . |
| 23 | Up to 300,000 Muslims marched on the Algiers Parliament yesterday to demonstrate against ‘ threats to Islam ’ . |
| 24 | A little further on dozens of similar dots appeared on the fronts of tightly-shuttered houses . |
| 25 | Early in September , large numbers of dead and dying dolphins appeared on the shores of the Greek island of Zakinthos , suggesting that the disease is being carried eastwards . |
| 26 | Tamed native birds flocked on the poolside boardwalk of their rented hideaway , ‘ Hawksnest ’ , as we met for the first time , and Robin encircled his shyness with a stream-of-consciousness banter , made easier by the antics of a visiting cocker spaniel , which bit the head off a parrot . |
| 27 | By the time the stars had faded , Maldita 's heart had rallied , beating almost as fast as her pounding little hooves had on the pampas . |
| 28 | All three of these judgments proceeded on the premise that any duty of care had to be founded on the special relationship that exists between carrier and passenger . |
| 29 | On April 27 a US C141 transport plane carrying relief supplies for Kurdish refugees arrived on the Iran-Iraq border . |
| 30 | Soft lights glowed on the mountains as if reflected from stained glass . |