Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [vb past] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their voices faded into the background as Isabel 's eyes came to rest on the third horse . |
| 2 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |
| 3 | He raised his hand , and with brusque , impersonal fingers which nevertheless had a surprising lightness of touch he felt the edges of the cut de Guichet 's whip had left on the smooth cheek . |
| 4 | IAN WILLIAMS , A WELSH NURSE , WORKED FOR THE BRITISH RED CROSS IN KISMAYO , SOMALIA , IN THE SUMMER OF 1992 , A TIME WHEN THE WORLD 'S MEDIA CHOSE TO FOCUS ON THE CONTINUING CIVIL WAR IN THIS FAMINE-STRICKEN COUNTRY , HE SEES THE SUFFERING OF SOMALIA ROOTED IN CLAN DIVISIONS … |
| 5 | So the GEC approach was blocked while BOC 's lawyers got to work on the proposed take-over . |
| 6 | Part of the parents ' case had rested on the following argument : within the school which the child attended a decision had been taken to include her in a remedial class ; thus , the special educational provision that should be made for her had already been determined ; so a statement ( under section 7(1) of the Act ) should follow . |