Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There he sat until a child switched on the widescreen t.v. showing a news broadcast . |
| 2 | The heavy rain had subsided during the morning , but the pavements were still wet underfoot and a fine haze of moisture hung on the wintry air . |
| 3 | Of a far bell carried on the sweet south air — ; Her accoutrements the gay dense cover of earth . |
| 4 | Her voice carried on the still air . |
| 5 | Like the effect of programme scheduling on TV audience sizes , a story put on the front page was much more likely to be read than something buried inside , and ‘ page traffic ’ figures show slightly higher noting of items on right-hand than left-hand pages . |
| 6 | practice of using a white number on a small blue plate hung on the first window pillar . |
| 7 | Bourdieu 's own analysis of politics , however , stresses rather the division between the ‘ knows ’ and the ‘ do n't knows ’ , in relation to the pressure put on the general public to have an informed opinion on often very distant issues ( 1984 : 397–465 ) . |
| 8 | Hick at No. 3 is encouragement to the bowlers and deflation for his fellow-batsmen : hence the pressure put on the middle order in the past two years . |
| 9 | An enterprising parents ' association at one primary school took on the short term lease of a shop in the local High Street in the pre-Christmas period and made a substantial profit by buying in stock from discount warehouses and retailing in competition with other traders . |
| 10 | There are times ’ — Rose 's face took on the fierce expression of a schoolgirl talking about her most hated teacher — ‘ when I 'd like to brain her with one of her own golf-clubs ! ’ |