Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] on a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland Yard said shots were fired at anti-terrorist squad detectives and a tactical firearms unit as they moved in on a house in Stoke Newington , north London . |
| 2 | While he was supervising the preparation of his constitution and orchestrating its presentation to the people of France and the French Community , de Gaulle moved decisively on a number of other fronts , particularly economic and diplomatic . |
| 3 | Iida 's aircraft was holed by Finn and other gunners and he crashed deliberately on a road near the officer 's quarters , one of the undercarriage wheels bounced through a house and the engine of the aircraft landed a ¼ mile away . |
| 4 | He accepted the devotion of a prostitute who anointed his feet with costly perfume , and he dined out on a number of occasions with tax collectors and sinners , who represented the social outcasts — the ‘ untouchables ’ of the day . |
| 5 | Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have asked me to draw your attention to a satellite dish erected recently on a house in Station Lane . |
| 6 | A small crowd gathered on the pitch to commemorate April 1963 , when the Beatles passed through on a train to somewhere else . |
| 7 | ‘ The spider came down on a thread in front of me while I was driving . |
| 8 | The newcomer came in on a gust of the storm . |
| 9 | Anderson came here on a visit after tidying up his affairs before leaving for Britain He is free from bitterness , and speaks bluntly of the change of motive which must happen to white settlers in a country passing under black majority rule . |
| 10 | This was the most precious moment , as he came to the end of his thrilling song , and his gentle but vibrant voice faded away on a note of infinitely passionate promise … |
| 11 | On the fourth day we passed the Temple of Kom Ombo perched heroically on a promontory above the river . |
| 12 | I arrived there on a planeload of Canadian oil-drillers who were several inches taller than me even without their high-heeled boots . |
| 13 | This condition should not pose too much of a problem , since the minister responsible , Luigi Covatta , stated publicly on a visit to Venice at the end of January that he was willing to return the materials still stored in Rome . |
| 14 | I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded . |
| 15 | His quill pen scratched away on a sheet of treated notepaper , creating a little masterpiece of querulous complaint about a mistress Byron was tired of . |
| 16 | He hesitated , then turned and rummaged around on a shelf against the wall . |
| 17 | Putting down her cup , she reached for the silk robe laid out on a chair at the side of the bed . |
| 18 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 19 | For 12 months , BP and Unipart worked together on a basis of trust , getting together the right people from both sides , brainstorming and exploring the many opportunities for collaborative activity — not just in Eastern Europe . |
| 20 | A LONE woman driver says she waited six hours to be rescued by the RAC when her car broke down on a motorway at night . |
| 21 | However one particular champion of the potato was Antoine-Augustin Parmentier a French chemist who was captured by the Germans during the Seven Years War and survived largely on a diet of potatoes . |
| 22 | Sub-contracting works fine most of the time but if you want something done urgently and the typesetter is broken or tied up on a job for its owner then guess who 's work is going to have to wait . |
| 23 | Rosa adjusted the cold compress on her forehead , and settled back on a chair against the wall , watching Cati as she lay . |
| 24 | Because I probably lost out on a lot of money . |
| 25 | Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in showbusiness . |
| 26 | Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in show business . |
| 27 | An education department spokesman said teachers , governors and the police worked closely on a number of anti-crime schemes in the classroom . |
| 28 | The fry grew rapidly on a diet of brine shrimp and Liquifry . |
| 29 | It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months . |
| 30 | Georgiades , vexed , went off on a search of his own . |