Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ducks swam about on the lake , beside which we would sometimes sit of a summer evening after supper , before going back on duty . |
| 2 | The town was grey and empty in the dull afternoon light ; cars swished through on the road going north , some with their headlights on , making everything else seem even dimmer . |
| 3 | As the cars lined up on the grid , Andretti on pole , Hunt alongside him , Pete Lyons wrote a wonderful paragraph which said it all : the mechanics drilling holes in Hunt 's visor so that he could see in the mist . |
| 4 | with some goodies laid out on the table , |
| 5 | Even their parents got in on the act , when the Mercedes hired to take them to the reception blew up . |
| 6 | No sooner had a special train , carrying 633 people who had taken refuge at the West German embassy in Warsaw , arrived in Hanover yesterday than at least 200 more refugees turned up on the embassy doorstep . |
| 7 | There were only a few dresses but these were elaborate , expensive and curiously old-fashioned compared to the heap of jeans and dungarees piled up on the floor of the wardrobe . |
| 8 | As she hesitated in the shadow of the doorway , footsteps rang out on the patio from another direction , and she saw Salvo come into view , heading quickly across to where his older brother sat . |
| 9 | Nineteenth-century industrial settlements grew up on the north side of Bolton with the great textile boom , when wealthy mill-owners created model villages after the example of Port Sunlight ( q.v . ) . |
| 10 | The handles were generally fixed first , also by plain rivets burred over on the shield 's front , at right angles to the grain of the wood ( Leeds and Shortt 1953 , p. 56 ; Jarvis et al . |
| 11 | There were nights when stone hot-water bottles left out on the floor froze solid . |
| 12 | The shelves ended up on the tip , and the new ones were made of wood and fixed to the wall with screws and wall plugs . |
| 13 | While all this went on , the parents sat around on the school 's battered garden furniture , the mothers watching each other warily , the fathers armoured in a remote mildness that Robert recognized from his own parent . |
| 14 | Initially these are no more than tiny wisps streaked out on the surface of the lava , like flecks of foam on a river , which are soon engulfed once more in the main mass . |
| 15 | Juliette lowered the iron on to a pair of trousers laid out on the ironing-board , producing a hissing cloud of steam through which she stared solemnly at Melissa . |
| 16 | I have little in them , nothing that matters , but those few crumpled contents laid out on the table are my possessions . |
| 17 | Later European governments got in on the act and set about invading and colonizing large chunks of the globe . |
| 18 | There was a long silence broken only by the ticking of the grandfather clock and the sighs and movements of the dogs stretched out on the floor . |
| 19 | I was listening engrossed to the woman I was walking to work with , who the night before had found two night-screws stretched out on the desk in a passionate embrace when she 'd gone downstairs to the office to ask for a Tampax . |
| 20 | Bike and biker parted company and , some slow-motion seconds later , my two front teeth touched down on the tarmac . |
| 21 | She 'd have things in trays on their table — cakes and bread and ginger biscuits and cough candy — but it was really queer because when you went in you could n't smell any of the lovely things laid out on the table . |
| 22 | After the home club and Southend took the top places , Colchester Joggers got in on the act with the team bronze , a first for the club over this distance . |
| 23 | The two headlining dates sold out on the strength of Kurt Cobain 's influential praise , and the ‘ Flame On ’ single sold heavily on the college campuses . |
| 24 | At one point , when some pages Spilled out on the floor , he remarked , as if it were an integral part of his commentary , that ‘ some people ’ did not realize the importance of properly securing a typescript . |
| 25 | Some changes came about on the death of Henry VIII , when the General Surveyors were absorbed into Augmentations , but it was apparent that more drastic reforms were needed . |
| 26 | This time , the lights went up on the slipper-fight . |
| 27 | Dwarf armies marched down on the trading city of Tor Alessi ( present day L'Anguille in Bretonnia ) and laid siege to it . |
| 28 | The defendants applied to have the plaintiffs ' actions struck out on the ground that the proper forum for any claim against them was Scotland and that the special jurisdiction laid down in articles 5 and 6 of the Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters 1968 , scheduled to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982did not apply so as to permit the defendants to be sued in England , notwithstanding that they were domiciled in Scotland . |
| 29 | The teams ran out on the pitch to a half-hearted roar and began to boot practice balls around the goal-mouths . |
| 30 | Having said that , there 's a programme called Star Test , where the interviewer is a computer , albeit with a female voice , and interviewees are invited to select from alternative questions flashed up on the screen ! |