Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb past] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 2 | Usually when she got home with the bread Léonie dumped it on the kitchen table . |
| 3 | Ten years ago , when Davey Boy was a mere unknown moving to America and desperate to make a name for himself , the Hit Man helped him on the ladder to success . |
| 4 | Once the luggage was stowed away on board Penry lifted her on the deck of the Angharad and cast off . |
| 5 | Charlotte put it in Emily 's hands , but after a moment Emily dropped it on the floor . |
| 6 | As the official indictment says , ‘ officers on duty from the Lhasa Public Security Bureau seized them on the spot with the swiftness of a thunderbolt ’ . |
| 7 | With a wail Jenny threw herself on the bed and buried her face in her pillow . |
| 8 | A hawthorn hedge divided them on the left from the field belonging to Upmeadow Farm , while on the right-hand side their territory was bounded by a swift little stream . |
| 9 | Not just because of Joachim 's kindness but that chance encounter put me on the road to solving Selkirk 's riddles and the horrible murders they caused . ) |
| 10 | A pistol butt caught her on the side of the head . |
| 11 | My local authority of Calderdale spent responsibly , and a Government Department patted it on the back , saying that it was the second most efficient metropolitan authority in the country . |
| 12 | Life magazine put him on the cover and that single photograph of Manson , with his evil , hypnotic stare , became for the hysterical mass media , the face of a violent , drug-crazed substrata of society : the monster hidden in the heart of every hippie and longhaired supporter of a culture which seemed certain to encompass an increasing section of youth and bandwagonners . |
| 13 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 14 | A volley of razor mosquito-bolts impaled themselves on the ground floor . |
| 15 | That application form put him on the ladder , not only to the top of the Japanese profession , but to international recognition — on 1 January this year he took over the chairmanship of the International Accounting Standards Committee . |
| 16 | Other member states bypassed us on the single currency by giving us an opt-out , for which the Prime Minister had to pay at Maastricht — and for which the British people will have to pay even more in the months ahead — and they bypassed us on the social chapter by simply going ahead without us . |
| 17 | The gunpowder plot had nothing on the game at the Manor . |
| 18 | He [ Chang ] said that the fact Korea found itself on the other side of that line as defined in Acheson 's address , combined with the House action yesterday , appeared to raise the serious question as to whether the United States might now be considered as having abandoned Korea . |
| 19 | The foredeck man snubbed it on the cleat . |