Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I I mentioned some of the things on income tax where i know it does n't er apply to the people in the group but may well do to relatives of them . |
| 2 | The way of life of the Dalmatian peasants and fisherfolk , and of the citizens of the former Venetian colonies of Split , Šibenik and Zadar has for centuries resembled that of the Italians on the western shore of the Adriatic rather than that of their Slav cousins who inhabit the Balkan interior . |
| 3 | She studied me for about half a minute , then rearranged some of the knick-knacks on her stall . |
| 4 | Connor recognised one of the men on the picket-line , and hailed him . |
| 5 | Like when Liza dropped one of the fridges on the floor , everybody used to go Wurgh ! |
| 6 | He threw one of the books on the floor . |
| 7 | He reversed some of the laws on language and education which discriminated against Tamils , and took to visiting some of the Tamils ' Hindu temples , even attempting the odd public statement in Tamil . |
| 8 | We enclosed most of the adults on deck within a rylock wire fence previously erected round Viking 's gunwale . |
| 9 | The regional military commander blamed most of the deaths on the rebels . |
| 10 | Quitainer carved some of the statues on the walls but some , more classical-looking , are by the two Süssner brothers from Bavaria . |
| 11 | After four days it acquitted three of the defendants on all charges , and acquitted Powell — who had delivered most of the blows — on all but one minor count upon which the jury remained undecided . |
| 12 | He placed one of the teeth on the saucer , then with a small downward jab of the shaker crushed it ; it was brittle , like a liqueur chocolate . |
| 13 | He hit one of the policemen on the jaw , and claimed in his defence that he had believed , on reasonable grounds , that his son was not guilty of the offence of which he was suspected , and had therefore been wrongfully arrested . |
| 14 | My grandiose descriptions faltered so I undid my money belt and emptied one of the pouches on the table . |
| 15 | That became available to the parties on 19 January 1992 . |
| 16 | Dyson watched them absently , grimacing as he bit each of the finger-nails on his right hand trim in turn . |
| 17 | Idly , Valence rubbed one of the runes on his own cheek , as though the ex-tech had already been similarly honoured , or anticipated honour . |
| 18 | The captain took Corbett by the sleeve , led him over to them and tapped one of the players on the shoulder . |
| 19 | The Building Societies Act 1986 removed some of the restrictions on lending by building societies . |
| 20 | Celia put two of the beers on the table , then she stood back , knuckles of her right hand on her hip , and said she had to go and talk to someone . |
| 21 | During their second attempt , Saunders and Sustad completed most of the difficulties on a route parallel to the spur . |
| 22 | However , in the spring of 1989 the Japanese Ministry of Finance relaxed some of the restrictions on arbitrage , and from then onwards the mispricings declined substantially , so that there were very few arbitrage opportunities by the end of the data period . |
| 23 | ‘ What about you ? ’ she responded in her most creamily civilised voice as he pushed one of the buttons on the panel outside the lifts . |
| 24 | Paul and I had gone for a walk along the sand , northwards on a calm , bright autumn day after a ferocious storm the night before that had ripped slates off the roof of the house , torn up one of the trees by the old sheep-pen and even snapped one of the cables on the suspension foot-bridge . |
| 25 | But , throughout his long career , he remained impervious to the explosions on the modern art front , remaining true to himself and evincing many similar characteristics to those of that earlier great East Anglian watercolourist John Sell Cotman , whom he greatly admired as , notably , in The Dales , 1961 . |