Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ca n't do the ship cos it wi , got to go on the bench in the garage . |
| 2 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 3 | It may also be that such service would be regarded as valid on the ground that it amounted to service on the defendant in accordance with the law of the country in which service is effected . |
| 4 | I enjoyed sitting on the hatch in the twilight with the crew , listening to their talk , a combination of profanity and sense . |
| 5 | Tuan Ti Fo looked up from where he was making ch'a to where the boy lay sleeping on the bedroll in the far corner of the room . |
| 6 | Maclean and King became entangled on the floor in an incident in which several other players became involved and punches were thrown . |
| 7 | No you have to get a bucket of water and flush it with a bucket , what we did have on the sink in the brew house was a a , a about a couple of foot square and on the top of that was an old pump handle , well that water used to drain all the rainwater from the roof all rainwater from the roof used to drain into that well that was sunk in the brewers , so that we could pump water out of the little well , so that we could have soft water for doing the washing , rainwater , otherwise it meant going to the standpipe in the , out in the yard to get your water for washing . |
| 8 | He also used the sea-beet Roger had gathered on the shore in a soup , and packed it into an opera hamper for an alfresco supper at a performance of Don Pasquale at nearby Castle Ward that evening . |
| 9 | Because the reasoning in those decisions had relied on the reasoning in Rex v. Sheridan [ 1937 ] 1 K.B . |
| 10 | In the next issue of his news-sheet he had reported on the incident in terms which he now realized had been unwise . |
| 11 | The special constitutional arrangement which the Westminster government had imposed on the region in the preceding months collapsed like a house of cards . |
| 12 | I had noticed on the way in that Jefferson 's office was alongside the boardroom and , as the last visitor went through into the factory , I turned sharp left and entered his office . |
| 13 | His sermon on the primacy of Peter ( which mirrored exactly what he had said on the subject in a tract written before he became pope , " De primatu Romani pontificis " ) explored the authority by which the pope governed , the Petrine commission . |
| 14 | He lay on his side , holding the covers over him by their edges , gazing at some of his copies of Vogue , which Tessa had been looking through and left lying on the carpet in front of the fire , where they glowed pink and red . |
| 15 | In a formal protest to the UN Security Council on Aug. 28 , the Kuwaiti government said that between 80 and 90 Iraqi troops had landed on the island in violation of Gulf ceasefire agreements [ see pp. 38164-65 ] before being repulsed by Kuwaiti coastguards . |
| 16 | and erm , then of course when they reached Felixstowe , everything was a bit chaotic because th they had to sleep on the floor in the schools down there |
| 17 | When I went home in the school holidays I had to sleep on the bed-settee in the ‘ front room ’ . |
| 18 | As the car chugged down the M1 motorway I stopped cursing my bad luck and thought of how we could have made the first descent if only we had concentrated on the job in hand and not got the press involved or told so many people all about our daring endeavour . |
| 19 | Ted Forde , RRA chairperson , said the RRA would appeal and said most of the council debate was irrelevant to their concerns over the dump , as the debate had focused on the factory in Ovens . |
| 20 | The first of the November frosts had settled on the lawn in front of the house , and the Sierra was an age starting . |
| 21 | Neil Armstrong and Buz Aldrin and their wives were there and Harold had laid on the evening in grand style with lots of television coverage . |
| 22 | The prouder and more articulate seaman had seen his pay and status in continuous decline from 1815 when , at the , end of the Napoleonic wars , " the government , without the least consideration for those who had battled on the ocean in defence of their king and country , disbanded the Fleets and cast adrift some thousands of Seamen suddenly to find employment in the merchant service " . |
| 23 | She had touched on the deadness in himself and this spasm of melancholy had come to torment the impacted sin of a lifetime . |
| 24 | When , in 1918 , with her brother and fiance both killed , she , an earl 's daughter , had gone on the stage in defiance of tradition , what else had she to offer ? |
| 25 | Whoever had worked on the case in the laboratory would have been smarter than to leave any traces of the implant visible . |
| 26 | F/O Pickard , a US citizen who coincidentally had worked on the carrier in the US before joining the ATA , recognized the vessel at Glasgow and was the first of those involved to identify it as VF-7 ( USS Wasp ) . |
| 27 | I had knocked on the wall in code , one knock for a , two for b , and I knocked Dave Jacobsen , A U B , and the response came back , Frank Reed , I C. |
| 28 | All that Sunday he had brooded on the episode in the cinema . |
| 29 | Its rubbish-collectors extracted a pay rise in January as a reward , in effect , for giving up a nonsensical collection schedule that they had foisted on the city in 1989 . |
| 30 | Before leaving school we had knelt on the floor in a row to make sure our hem lines touched the ground , just grazed it , and then we had stood up and had our knickers checked . |