Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [adv] [vb past] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE BOOKS YOU ACTUALLY READ ON HOLIDAY : |
| 2 | The cost in horses and men was heavy , and the feeding of the former a significant outlay , especially when corn prices were high : " Robert Russell , proprietor of the daily fly wagons which set out from London … to Falmouth , feels much pleasure in being able , owing to the blessings derived from the late harvest , to reduce the advances he lately made on carriage . " |
| 3 | Other public bodies who actively campaigned on behalf of the constitutional amendment were the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties . |
| 4 | Lloyd was wearing the bottom half of a pale grey pinstripe suit with turn-ups which probably took on board water when it rained . |
| 5 | She felt intimidated ; these men were the most powerful in the land , men you only saw on television or in the press . |
| 6 | There is little doubt that the popular newspapers and the police embrace the copycat phenomenon with enthusiasm , so they may be misleading on many occasions with the supposed examples they sometimes put on display . |