Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 2 | Helen was called home to help her sister , Irene , in her employment and during this ten-week secretarial stint she and Edward met frequently on the Common as Helen returned from her work . |
| 3 | Montgomerie got off on the wrong foot by commencing with a trio of bogeys , making mistakes throughout the bag before settling down to birdie the fifth and sixth and reach the turn in 38 . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , Scott drew heavily on the Byzantine palaces of Venice , which Ruskin had popularized in The Stones of Venice , for inspiration in the revised Foreign Office design that he was preparing for Palmerston in the autumn of 1859 . |
| 5 | Only two minutes left when Richard Walker popped up on the proverbial back stick , sounds painful does n't it , and it was for Portsmouth . |
| 6 | The poignant music drifted into the coffee-house , and Meredith settled back on the Victorian chair to enjoy it and her surroundings . |
| 7 | Corbett chewed thoughtfully on a small manchet loaf from a basket covered by a white linen cloth . |
| 8 | The Battle of Britain was fought over their heads ; there were dog-fights in the Sussex summer skies , a Messerschmitt shot down on the peaceful Downs . |
| 9 | Rodomonte hovered nervously on the other side of the chamber . |
| 10 | When his telling cross arrived in the danger area , Stainrod stole in on the blind side of the Perth defence to power the ball home first time from 12 yards . |
| 11 | But Roker boss Malcolm Crosby missed out on a similar loan bid for Everton striker Tony Cottee . |
| 12 | Markby set out on a different line of approach . |
| 13 | Glanton 's current plans for the Barnes depend entirely on a favourable judgment from the Orphans Court . |
| 14 | The Venetian author of the Italian Relation of England commented specifically on the English sense of national pride , and presumably was thinking of attitudes which he encountered generally and not merely the point of view of the more literate : ' … the English are great lovers of themselves and everything belonging to them ; they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say ‘ he looks like an Englishman ’ ' ( 35 , pp.20–1 ) . |
| 15 | Mr Kilfedder relies heavily on an unquestioning personal vote and a reputation , particularly among the older electorate , for local diligence and national prominence . |
| 16 | The rope was once again attached to a tree and then to the saddle of Felipe 's horse , and Maggie lay back on the cliff-top to watch as he made another dangerous trip over the edge . |
| 17 | ‘ Why I want to warn every mum-to-be ’ Leslie Ash speaks out on a hidden danger |
| 18 | Although new names have produced the successes , Longman falls back on the old to consolidate the same . |
| 19 | Kiah and Rilla sat down on the expensive green and black chairs and looked at the expensive flowers on the tables . |
| 20 | Zen sat down on the large sofa which occupied most of one wall , thinking about that last card which he 'd fondly thought he had up his sleeve . |
| 21 | Before the crowd could drift off , Cameron got up on the massive stone gate-post and called on them to swear an oath . |
| 22 | Ramsay learnt early on the crucial importance of drawing as the basis for his art . |
| 23 | When he was only forty feet from the Ilyushin , with his right wing now pointing straight up , its tip just a few feet from the airliner 's belly , Duncan pulled back on the left engine and then let the drag pull the plane level . |
| 24 | Stephen pulled in on the opposite side of the road . |
| 25 | Exactly fifteen minutes later , Julia tapped once on the panelled door of the double cube , paused , turned the handle and entered . |
| 26 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 27 | PENTIUM DOES WELL ON A FREQUENCY-ADJUSTED BASIS |
| 28 | Yorkshire set out on the final day in a difficult position , still 130 runs away from making Hampshire bat again , but with all wickets in hand . |
| 29 | Julia sat down on a hard chair beside the child . |
| 30 | In practice , Oxfordshire , Somerset , Leicestershire and Coventry set out on an ambitious exercise simultaneously with the development of the Northern Record of Achievement and the London Record of Achievement . |