Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 The fiery Scot was first to react when two supporters ran on to The Dell to stage an injury-time protest .
2 ‘ Innes Place had been vacant ground for a long number of years , and the planning people insisted that there never had been houses fronting on to the Donegall Road , ’ Mr Smyth explained .
3 The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years .
4 THE Phoenix Players stepped on to the Rialto stage last night with their presentation of O'Casey 's ‘ Juno and the Paycock ’ .
5 Oil droplets and soot particles falling on to the Gulf waters , already suffering from oil spills , threaten the phytoplankton which supply food for the fish .
6 On 1st June 1885 , a group comprising 118 of the exiled Nez Perce arrived at Lapwai , while Joseph 's 150 followers continued on to the Colville Reservation .
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