Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the series of treaties in 1854 – 58 which helped to launch her on a rapid and irreversible process of change it could even still be questioned whether full-scale diplomatic representation there was worth what it cost . |
| 2 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 3 | She is pictured with boyfriend , operations supervisor at the computer centre , who invited to join her on the two-day trip . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 5 | You said you 'd spent it on a new banjo . ’ |
| 6 | She 'd found herself on the receiving end of a great deal of teasing about her impromptu topless dip in the sea and her valiant rescuer , and she 'd fenced it as calmly as she could . |
| 7 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 8 | Charles took to Diana that weekend and began seeing her on a regular basis when they returned to London . |
| 9 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 10 | Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday . |
| 11 | He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with an iron . |
| 12 | They arrived at a place where the river was fast and deep , and Angel started to cross it on the narrow footbridge , still holding Tess . |
| 13 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |
| 14 | Well , 25 of us went to see it on the 13th of February , and it 's a good show . |
| 15 | But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year . |
| 16 | Yes I know cos you did have it on a few weeks ago . |
| 17 | Although it is not a mountain tent I did take it on a high camp with a family group . |
| 18 | It was assumed that parishes , very largely the agricultural villages of the southern and eastern cereal regions , who were using Speenhamland-like systems of poor relief , had placed themselves on a vicious spiral of soaring poor rates and were progressively increasing the very poverty they sought to relieve . |
| 19 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 20 | Seb entered the gipsy encampment warily , remembering the reception Boz and his friends had given him on an earlier visit . |
| 21 | He found it hard to remember whether you had to position yourself on the left or the right side . |
| 22 | Apparently Mr Baker had met him on a social occasion , and had been impressed by his traditionalist views . |
| 23 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 24 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 25 | The bill was passed by the House by 273 votes to 154 ; the Senate had approved it on the previous day by 62 votes to 34 . |
| 26 | The funny man who had found her on a distant planet and had treated her as a human being . |
| 27 | The popular explanation of his condition was that his mother , in late pregnancy , had been knocked over by a runaway circus elephant , and the shock had imprinted itself on the unborn child . |
| 28 | Unionists proved quite able to handle the new mass electorate , and their efforts to gear up to meet new challenges in and after 1911 had set them on the right road . |
| 29 | She remembered their birthdays , sent notes of apology to their wives when they had to accompany her on an overseas tours and ensured that they were ‘ fed and watered ’ when she went out with them from Kensington Palace . |
| 30 | Francisco worked in Admin , but occasionally he doubled as a barman , and he did n't have to explain that he had cut himself on a broken glass . |