Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] on the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mind touched briefly on the two defaulters who were awaiting their fate in the basement cells . |
| 2 | The pregnant housewife was found stabbed and battered after going missing when her car broke down on the M-50 motorway . |
| 3 | The drapes were drawn over all the windows , the enormous marble-topped table that dominated the room lit by overhead lamps , the wash of their light thrown up on the six members , two of them women , sitting around it . |
| 4 | THE flag goes up on the 1993 Eastern Centre Motorcycle Grass Track racing season on Sunday at Brazils Farm , Woodham Ferrers , near Chelmsford . |
| 5 | As a result , the evidence for this second stage in the history of marriage depends entirely on the two assumptions which we have already noted . |
| 6 | The brief silence seemed to stretch down the long room and hold fast by the pillars of the door , and every eye in the hall fixed greedily on the three at the high table . |
| 7 | Heliopsis snatched a dramatic late verdict under George Duffield in the Tennents Special Handicap as the curtain came down on the 1992 Scottish Flat racing programme . |
| 8 | The B–17 pilot then skilfully brought the bomber down in front of the cameras , which recorded the dramatic crash landing as the right wing slammed down on the two right props and engines . |
| 9 | In ‘ Ease , Into Place and Grow Accustomed ’ ( 1987 ) , the steamy blinding oranges , sonorous azure blues and the more synthetic , interior quality of an intense billiard-table green hint at the ways in which colour operates simultaneously on the one level as pre-verbal , as bodily sensation or perception , and on the other as a sign or symbol which modifies or disrupts a system or construction . |
| 10 | And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports . |
| 11 | Some of the mud and rubbish washed down on the two houses Picture : PHIL MICHEU |
| 12 | To satisfy Moore 's requirements an activity has somehow on the one hand really to somehow matter , and on the other hand not to do so on account of anything ordinarily thought of as of practical use . |
| 13 | They were no doubt correct in believing that the financial burdens of Empire fell heavily on the two Castiles : heavy taxation drove industry and population to the peripheral regions and emphasized the decline of agriculture . |