Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To quote the memoirs : ‘ … on Sunday the 4th August 1793 , after having finished the morning duty he always performed in person , of visiting , prescribing for , and superintending the dressing of the wounds of the horses in the infirmary , he sat down to continue his treatise on the outward conformation of the horse , a work he intended for publication : in a short time he informed Mrs. Vial that he felt himself extremely ill complaining of cold to a degree of shivering , attended with a violent headach [ sic ] , and great thirst . |
| 2 | The telephone was ringing as McLeish walked into his own flat , and he picked it up to find his Commander on the other end of the line . |
| 3 | No , this guy 's fault is he had one too many bourbons before getting up to strut his stuff on the dance-floor . |
| 4 | On turning back to finish my ammunition on the Ju88 , which was pouring smoke from the starboard engine , my aircraft was hit by return fire from the e/a in both self-sealing tanks . |
| 5 | Even Maurice Bernard , owner of the one bar currently open in Saignon , did not know the whereabouts of the man who is about to immortalise his region on the small screen . |
| 6 | THE season is coming up , unfortunately , when one of the worst forms of pollution is about to make its reappearance on the streets . |
| 7 | He also took a few new recruits , notably three young lieutenants , Harry Poat , Tony Marsh and Johnny Wiseman , all three of whom went on to make their mark on the regiment . |