Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stretched out her hand to click on the bedside light , checked her watch , then lay back , panic subsiding , her eyes staring at the ceiling while the terrible immediacy of the dream began to fade , recognized for what it was , an old spectre returning after all these years , conjured up by the events of the night and by the reiteration of the word ‘ murder ’ which , since the Whistler had begun Iris work , seemed to murmur sonorously on the very air . |
| 2 | The load was fixed across the poles of shafts by means of a wicker basket or a wooden container made to fit horizontally on the sloping shafts . |
| 3 | At eight he began working part-time on a local farm , and three years later left school to go there full-time . |
| 4 | Polybius explains in Book 3 why he proposes to extend his exposition to cover the next twenty years by saying : " Since judgements regarding either victors or vanquished based purely on the actual struggles are not final … |
| 5 | There 's an article in today 's Yorkshire Post which states that Leeds Utd went surging ahead on the commericial front last year . |
| 6 | Not only did it win 13 of the 14 constituency seats ( 92.9% ) : it managed to do so on an average constituency vote of no more than 43.5% , which was further reduced by the usual leakage to a list vote of 41.8% . |
| 7 | Sadly she deceived herself : as the sanitary authorities became convinced that cholera was water-borne and could be checked by means more immediately effective than prayer , public attention became focussed more on the sanitary inspector than on the parson . |
| 8 | Policy discussions at ministerial level appeared to focus mainly on the hoary old issues of which agency should take lead responsibility , ’ but finally , in 1989 , the government took a decision which was considered unthinkable only a year earlier , that is , that local authority social services departments should be given lead responsibility for community care and for all services including mental health , but with some additional controls added in the latter case , the single most controversial of Griffiths ' proposals . |
| 9 | We had to sit outside on the front steps , which were also white . |
| 10 | Nought but a rabble he had gathered together on the fair island that lies to the east — of buccaneers and booty hunters and ruffianly runaways from the slaveships that are plying these waters most usefully . |
| 11 | Perhaps the toner fluid intoxicated her — there were over a hundred sheets to copy — or maybe it was the lack of air in the photocopying room , but after we had done and she had commented favourably on the comprehensive and detailed nature of the notes , she asked me to go out with her . |
| 12 | He had not much enjoyed the campaign , and whether because of this or of the result , he had to go immediately on a two-day walk from Kingham to Oxford to purge himself of his ‘ humours ’ . |
| 13 | For the party that had leaned heavily on the established Church and derived satisfaction from its role as defender of the Church , the decline of religion was a serious blow . |
| 14 | She had leaned forward on the grassy bank and she was speaking and I could n't remember what she was saying . |
| 15 | They had sat together on the other scaffolding and watched the Graces dance . |
| 16 | She was at the age when many women are at their physical best : tall , thin , but shapely ; smart , but not too dauntingly so ; fragrant ( a touch of Poison ) ; and fun : she had mastered early on the necessary female skill of charity towards her suitors ' jokes . |
| 17 | These were trivial afflictions compared with the burden which had disappeared , gone like the flapping black wings of carrion crow that had gorged enough on the dead flesh in the field . |
| 18 | But Mrs. Pridmore had seized gratefully on a familiar name . |
| 19 | She had concentrated hard on the mundane chores , hoping , unsuccessfully , to keep Nathan Bryce out of her thoughts . |
| 20 | The young art student was about nineteen when he died ; he had worked hard on the dramatic murals in the studio and then he tried mixing drugs with drink and that was fatal . |
| 21 | On the window was a blue-and-red peacock she had stencilled there on a wet afternoon when the garden was blanked out with grey rain . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The council , in the absence of state schemes , continued to rely heavily on the voluntary sector for essential services . |
| 24 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Indeed , it had expired almost on the short journey home . |
| 27 | When the last notes of the anthem had faded away on the moaning wind , Jinkwa shuffled forward . |
| 28 | When they had dried perfunctorily on the threadbare towels that were issued they were marched across the stamped snow of a path to the Store for the clothing issue . |
| 29 | Athelstan stared across at a group of dicers who sat playing noisily on the other side of the tavern . |