Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Heinrich has to stand here on the deck while you drone on , said Tilda . |
| 2 | He breathed a sigh of relief as he heard Corbett begin to play gently on the lute he always carried , a sign his master was content , reflecting on his own secret thoughts and not keeping a wary eye on him . |
| 3 | But Mrs. Pridmore had seized gratefully on a familiar name . |
| 4 | Other exposures such as the Swindon affair and the irregular payment to Graham Roberts have depended largely on the Press or dissident club officials . |
| 5 | The Crown Prince could recall how , the previous year , when Hindenburg and Ludendorff had stood seemingly on the very brink of a Russian collapse , Falkenhayn had terminated the immensely successful Gorlice offensive . |
| 6 | No one 's temper was improved when they learned that the Land Rover had parked right on the patch of ground they were going to plant things in . |
| 7 | During the 1980s the discussion about disparities of prosperity between different regions in the UK has focused increasingly on the issue of the North-South divide . |
| 8 | All of which tends to confirm a belief that General Holomisa has advanced far on a scheme to forge an informal alliance with Mr Mandela and his organisation , the African National Congress . |
| 9 | She greeted her son with a nod and relief that Bunty had lagged behind on the stairs , giggling with some others . |
| 10 | Shirley had clattered noisily on the linoleum , had huffed and puffed and banged about , and finally had said with some passion , ‘ You 're barmy . ’ |
| 11 | Miranda had remained quietly on the stool looking at her fat knees , as if she were happy doing so , until one of the shopgirls in costume jewellery leaned over the counter and said , through scarlet lips , ‘ Where 's your mummy gone to then ? ’ |
| 12 | JMTC and Gillotts School , Henley-on-Thames have worked together on an exciting project to develop new teaching materials describing an everyday or industrial application of chemistry . |
| 13 | Until recently , public interest in the West has centred largely on the performances of the girls , as it would in any competitive sport . |
| 14 | In the two days since the men had been gone the girls had become close friends , beginning from the moment Joanna had knocked timidly on the solar door soon after Guy had left . |
| 15 | Gaston had chatted lightly on every topic under the sun , except the one that was consuming her . |
| 16 | Outraged leaders in Turkey have turned angrily on the German authorities . |
| 17 | As a former tough-tackling centre-back with Stoke , Smith has worked overtime on a City defence that has lost heavily at Millwall and Brentford in the past month . |
| 18 | Cowley leafed through the file that Bodie had gathered together on the girl . |
| 19 | Just after Manning had come the agnostic Tyndall , talking about the identity of radiant heat and light ; and just before Stanley , the militant anti-christian W. K. Clifford had held forth on the education of the people , and especially on the importance of technical drawing . |
| 20 | Helen , alarmed and suspecting infidelity ( there had been an episode in the past concerning which Louise had boiled away on the telephone for months on end ) , asked what was wrong with him . |
| 21 | Supported by the Government Agent , Ridgeway refused to do so on the ground that it was commonly believed in the district that the men were guilty . |
| 22 | Though O'Conor and the English pianist Frank Merrick have worked intensely on the scores , the SCO rehearsals , O'Conor says , have been fraught with interruption , as wrong notes are traced , discussed and righted . |