Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | LORD ALDINGTON told the High Court yesterday he was not surprised that tens of thousands of Yugoslavs , many of whom had fought on the German side , feared repatriation at the end of the war . |
| 2 | As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 3 | Ten of them had landed on the burnt-out branches of the witch trees and were silhouetted against the fiery red death . |
| 4 | The men asked some very technical questions and during conversation it turned out that one of them had worked on the construction of the Visitors ’ Centre and another had been employed on the construction of one of the Scottish nuclear power stations . ’ |
| 5 | It had been shattered along with the glass tank , the debris of which lay scattered on the carpet . |
| 6 | A company rule provided for the instant and automatic dismissal of anyone found smoking on the premises . |
| 7 | She was thinking of what had happened on the train . |
| 8 | P.C. Clifford and the other policeman got into the car again and drove across the bridge to its junction with Queen Street on the City bank , giving a brief report of what had happened on the radio telephone before leaving the car . |
| 9 | One of us had to sit on the floor of the phone box while the other stood up and rested on the shelf where you open out the directories . |
| 10 | You know that that 's about all the room there was was honestly was a table and chairs and more often than not a couple of us had to sit on the stairs . |
| 11 | The windows were dark and she got no answer to her repeated knocking on the front door . |
| 12 | She never ever referred to what had happened on the beach . |