Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb past] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 2 | The belief — fallacious , as it turned out — in the unique selling points of Event lulled everybody on the magazine into a false sense of security . |
| 3 | ah , I 've put you a three eight , wide eight thick piece of steel lay it on the top that would hold it down in the middle |
| 4 | One of the notable features of the mid-Thatcher period was a revival of the civil liberties movement , as governmental pressures against individual right of expression impressed themselves on the public consciousness . |
| 5 | These two seemed friendly enough , but their questions about Sweetheart put him on the defensive . |
| 6 | Other artisan groups also from time to time found themselves on the receiving end of employer " impositions " . |