Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crossbow , most useful in defence when the crossbowman , who needed protection for the time required to wind up his weapon , could hide himself behind a wall , was an elitist weapon , most effective in the hands of Gascons , who fought in Wales for Edward I , and of Genoese , a large contingent of whom fought on the French side at Crécy . |
| 2 | The general assumption by everyone involved on the Allied side , from 5 Corps up to AFHQ , had been that , in terms of the Yalta repatriation agreement , the " Cossacks " were Soviet citizens , and on that basis the decision in Principle had been made that , however much this may have regretted by some people on humanitarian grounds , the British obligation was to hand them over . |
| 3 | All was going well until I knelt on the front overlap . |
| 4 | ( Before I went to work in the morning I would take a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush and deal with the black-and-white chequered marble shop doorstep — in my memory it is a glittering affair , although cold on frosty mornings — because at that time of the day the rising sun often shone full down the High Street where we lived and on me , as I knelt on the cobbled pavement plying my scrubbing-brush . ) |
| 5 | I knelt on the wooden floor in the East Yorkshire winter praying , " Dear God if you exist let me be warmed . " |
| 6 | I knelt on the top step and poked my head through , near the bottom of the gap … |
| 7 | Very , very quickly , can I just say , that in the er , consultat in the , in the work I did in the , which led to the production of the report , and the many , many people I talked to , some of whom I , I see around the table , I found on the one hand , ample evidence throughout the county authorities , the health authority , the district councils , and the voluntary sector , of much evidence of recognition of improved collaboration between agencies in delivery of community care in Shropshire . |
| 8 | He was a most able officer , and I was able to hand over this part of the work to him with confidence , while I concentrated on the current activities of the department . |
| 9 | But when I concentrated on the postage-stamp-sized photographs bearing his name that had started to appear , I could no longer be certain that he and The Fat Controller were one and the same . |
| 10 | Checking a positive climb and flicking up the quick-retracting gear I concentrated on the slow process of building speed , getting the flaps in at 130 and maintaining a gentle increase in height with steady acceleration to 170 knots , when the nose can be raised for 3,000 fpm to show on the VSI as she really starts to go . |
| 11 | I had a feeling it would be for the best , I said , when I stopped on the hard shoulder that day . |
| 12 | I banged on the front door for ten minutes , getting colder and colder . |
| 13 | Therefore , it was not surprising that when I intervened on the hon. Member for Newham , North-East he was a little coy about referring to his party 's record on unemployment . |
| 14 | The first one is the one I played on the entire record of ‘ Question And Answer ’ . |
| 15 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 16 | I knocked on the front door , but there was no answer . ’ |
| 17 | I knocked on the open door and strode into the front room trusting that Patterson was right behind me . |
| 18 | I remarked on the beautiful sympathy evinced in one speech by Sophia Stace ( Brothers and Sisters ) and in another by the terrible Matty ( A Family and a Fortune ) . |
| 19 | You probably guessed it already : I landed on the wrong runway . |
| 20 | It was only as I rapped on the open door of his office that I realized the plan was upside down . |
| 21 | ‘ I know whose voice I heard on the other end of the line . ’ |
| 22 | I told him I worked on the Menai Suspension Bridge . |
| 23 | After three different versions I decided on the plain raincoat shape , tied with a belt . ’ |
| 24 | Tod and I reclined on the wrung bedding as Irene advanced into the room , holding a tightly gripped paper tissue to her eyes and calling us a piece of shit . |
| 25 | Albert has two hotels and , there being nothing in the guidebook to distinguish them , I settled on the Grand Hôtel de la Paix , sight unseen . |
| 26 | In the course of my pastoral visiting , before I took a funeral service , I called on the dead man 's son , who told me that he fell out with his father at his wedding twenty years previously and that he was not going to the funeral service now ! |
| 27 | I jogged around with Ben well before I started on the important phase of my warm-up . |
| 28 | I started on the full golf tour , but it soon became a choice of golf or my family . |
| 29 | Two years since I started on the big glass . |
| 30 | In a short series of talks entitled Let the Figures Speak , I meditated on the Three Gems , the Four Truths , the Five Great Precepts , the Eightfold Path , and then went on to deal with some of the statistics of Burmese life — birth figures , infant mortality , crime figures , etc . |