Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muted sounds , and , once , a cry of pain , came from behind the closed doors that led off it on either side . |
| 2 | What passed between you on that occasion ? ’ |
| 3 | There are dozens of ministers , some highly qualified , who have been purged from the leadership by Mr Ceausescu , usually because they disagreed with him on particular issues or because their superior intelligence made him insecure . |
| 4 | ‘ I thoroughly disagreed with him on numerous issues , ’ said Teller , ‘ to this extent I would like to see the vital interests of this country in hands which I understand better and therefore trust more . ’ |
| 5 | He narrowly avoided collisions with two cars as he drove onto the western bypass and forced the pursuing police car to take evasive action when he drove towards it on another road . |
| 6 | Contemporary audiences would have understood that the film appealed to them on that level but were also aware that the tragedy of the film consisted of an ordinary innocent American being hounded by external events and being forced into failure and crime . |
| 7 | It happened to me on one occasion when I was about ten . |
| 8 | The second section , " Hiroshima 1945–1979 " , is a set of portraits of contributors to " Genboku no ko " ( Children of the Atomic Bombing ) , 186 accounts by children of what happened to them on 6 August 1945 . |
| 9 | Now a day 's residue is some association which relates the manifest content usually to what happened to you that day , and often i they 're very oft it 's often that the day 's residue is built into the manifest dream , so it 's quite obvious , you had this dream because of something that happened to you on that day . |
| 10 | He conversed with them on all matters connected with their business and had his trouble often many times repeated with the useful wrinkles he gained . |
| 11 | The key to it is with Simon Makallah , who lied to us on three occasions . ’ |
| 12 | And those who worked with him on ecumenical committees knew that this was nothing like so rigid an Anglo-Catholic as sometimes he was portrayed ; and remembered what he did for the Methodists and other non-Anglicans in Durham . |
| 13 | Arthur Ibbetson , the English cameraman who worked with him on several occasions , first notes how alarmed he was to discover what a bad skin Richard had and then enthuses without pause about the shape of his face , his professionalism , his patience . |
| 14 | Buttoning the long fitted jacket over her expensive cream gown , she went to him on determined footsteps . |
| 15 | She marched with them on International Women 's Day . |
| 16 | I am most grateful , therefore , to James Freeman , chairman of the PLC who spoke to me on this matter . |
| 17 | Is not it important that the Northern Ireland Office should ensure that full information is available to the public on the extent of the deadly arsenal that the terrorists had with them on that occasion , which included AK47 assault rifles and Dsh heavy machine-guns ? |
| 18 | But they said to us on that night ‘ unless we have the full £150,000 for the seven performances we 've done and the eighth which we are about to do we wo n't go on . ’ |
| 19 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
| 20 | We naturally renewed our invitation as soon as we learnt of the new arrangements proposed by the English Club , and he wrote to me on 25 November 1935 on Criterion writing paper : |
| 21 | Gandhi wrote to him on 14 February and asked for an interview . |
| 22 | The council considered his objections by way of an informal internal appeal procedure , but wrote to him on 27 November 1991 in these terms : |
| 23 | Back home , I wrote to him on 4 July , enclosing a shortish essay which the comparative leisure afforded by leaving Oxford had made possible . |
| 24 | I last wrote to you on 14 February , enclosing a copy of the Prospectus and two copies of the Agreement for the tape , the latter for signature on behalf of the University of Birmingham before being returned to me . |
| 25 | At the request of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I wrote to you on 25th May concerning the state of the railway embankment on Station Lane Scorton and the mess left around the railway bridge on Gubberford Lane Scorton . |
| 26 | Simon Murison-Bowie wrote to you on 22 December last year asking you to let us know the operating system and machine you would run the tape on , and the tape density you would need , so that we could arrange for a copy to be prepared for you . |
| 27 | On 10 June I received a letter from Mr. , which made reference to the site meeting I held with you on 4 June , and then said , and I quote , ‘ the volunteers will carry out the resurfacing works on the Canal towing path … ’ ; ‘ after the works are completed … ’ ; ‘ the upgrading works carried out by your organisation will be to the benefit of all canal users ’ . |