Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or got on the same bus . |
| 2 | With few exceptions , labor violence was the result of isolated and usually unplanned acts on a picket line , or occurred on a prohibited parade or demonstration protesting employer obduracy or police brutality . |
| 3 | For two summer holidays my parents took a Prep school outside Westerham and from here we bicycled over half of Kent with our Father or played on the small school fields or swam in the local swimming bath . |
| 4 | She sat or perched on an upright chair smiling like an angel just dropped from the skies . |
| 5 | In the shower cubicle , water hissed on ceramic tile or clattered on the green plastic curtain , according to the gyrations of the nude body within . |
| 6 | They can dispense with the claim that science must start with unbiased and unprejudiced observation by making a distinction between the way a theory is first thought of or discovered on the one hand , and the way in which it is justified or its merits assessed on the other . |
| 7 | In his view , the court could intervene only if the minister ( a ) failed or refused to apply his mind to or to consider the question whether to refer a complaint to the committee or ( b ) misinterpreted the law or proceeded on an erroneous view of the law or ( c ) based his decision on some wholly extraneous consideration or ( d ) failed to have regard to matters which he should have taken into account . |
| 8 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |
| 9 | And if you 're worried in case anyone in the family has drunk out of a cup her husband used , or sat on the same loo seat or given him a friendly kiss , relax . |
| 10 | In patients with episodic hypoxaemia and a normal baseline Sao 2 the clinically apparent episodes were considered to represent severe manifestations of the self resolving hypoxaemic episodes that occurred on the physiological recordings . |
| 11 | Well they did a lot of them are actually country songs that were like Old Flames and and even the Black Sheep was was an American song which we you know and yes you know if you send them back to America , Old Flames for instance is often back on the American those that played on the Irish programme . |
| 12 | They started drinking before the parson ever arrived and , when he did , fell upon the beer kegs that came on the same cart as though they were men dying of thirst . |
| 13 | It was , eventually , their forward power that told on the Old Boys , with New Zealander No 8 Dale MacIntosh conspicuous in a constructive back row . |
| 14 | Li Yuan nodded , looking down at the plump , bejewelled hand that rested on the rough cloth of his sleeve . |
| 15 | Deserts are the result of a lack of water and if there is a prolonged , fluctuating drought ( like the one that began on the northern fringe of sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the 1960s ) vast sums of money are not going to stop desertification . |
| 16 | This time to clear the blood and the chip of white tooth that landed on the concrete floor . |
| 17 | The spotlight cast shadows that curled on the sculpted sides of the motor launches . |
| 18 | In February 1984 the strange , black snow that fell on the Scottish Cairngorms bore more resemblance to vinegar than frozen water . |
| 19 | He slept in tombs and caves and was attacked by wild dogs and brigands ; inside an unventilated tent he worked in desert temperatures with collodion chemicals that boiled on the glass-plate negatives . |
| 20 | Denuded heads on pale green drooping stems hung like mourners at a graveside over the ring of faded scarlet petals that lay on the painted wood . |
| 21 | But these bright spots were dimmed by the assassination of the Western-orientated Hashemite royal family in Baghdad on 14th July 1958 during the Nasser-inspired coup , which ended Britain 's treaty relations with Iraq and led to the RAF 's withdrawal from the Habbaniyah and Shu'aiba air bases that lay on the air-reinforcement route to the Far East . |
| 22 | The wedding bells that sounded on the last page of so many ‘ romantic ’ novels of the last century are still sounding in certain genres but in the adventure story they seldom sound at all . |
| 23 | All that remained on the barren expanse was a deafening silence . |
| 24 | No , it was no longer a deeper darkness , there was a light that glinted on the glancing rain-drops . |
| 25 | He rubbed his hands together in anticipation and pressed the play button on a video that stood on a small table . |
| 26 | A maintenance man , with a garden fork and wheelbarrow , was tending the herbaceous border that stretched along the frontage of the flats and , in response to Morse 's question , he said he was one of a small team that looked after the three blocks of flats that stood on the eastern side of Water Eaton Road . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't bully me with your logic and your jargon , Tom ! ’ snapped Faye , reaching automatically for the brimming glass of sweet juice that stood on the small table beside her . |
| 28 | Lucy crawled out of bed around lunchtime , found her way up to the shower while Josie could be heard moving around in the kitchen , and could n't resist leaving aside her own hard soap and supermarket shampoo in order to freeload a few squirts and squeezes of the gels , mousses and lotions that stood on the tiled windowsill . |
| 29 | Bobbin-making was originally a coppice industry — one of those that depended on a small plantation of selected trees for commercial use — in this case birch . |
| 30 | The first university professorship bearing the title ‘ social anthropology ’ was that held on an honorary basis at Liverpool University in 1908 by Sir James George Frazer ( 1854–1941 ) , author of the mammoth Victorian best-seller The Golden Bough ( first edition 1890 ) which , with its strong appeal to a readership brought-up on the classics , did much to establish the new subject 's credentials . |