Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] on a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The newcomer came in on a gust of the storm . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | I arrived there on a planeload of Canadian oil-drillers who were several inches taller than me even without their high-heeled boots . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Because I probably lost out on a lot of money . |
| 11 | An education department spokesman said teachers , governors and the police worked closely on a number of anti-crime schemes in the classroom . |
| 12 | The fry grew rapidly on a diet of brine shrimp and Liquifry . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Georgiades , vexed , went off on a search of his own . |
| 15 | THE two blue birds snuggled up on a branch , the smaller one lovingly stroking her mate 's neck while he chewed contentedly on a piece of coconut . |
| 16 | Instead she sipped on several cups of reviving , strong black coffee , and chewed listlessly on a piece of cardboard masquerading as toast . |
| 17 | It vanished as the wide sweep of grey-blue sea fell beneath the rising ground behind the town , and as the bus trundled westward I looked out on a landscape of untroubled peace . |
| 18 | High overhead , a buzzard circled lazily on a column of warm air and on the roadway a butterfly with big white-ringed , russet-coloured eyes staring from its black wingtips , opened and closed its wings . |
| 19 | When she allowed him to ‘ catch ’ her , the two of them rolled about on a pile of hessian rope , screeching and laughing , until David reminded Cissie that she was ‘ a young lady of certain years ’ and that Richard should remember how he had only been allowed to come to the docks on the understanding that he be on his ‘ best behaviour ’ . |
| 20 | BY A strange coincidence , two Americans from the same Courtaulds site went abroad on a mission of mercy at the same time . |
| 21 | She clung to Jacob 's arm , saw him spirited away on a tide of compliments . |
| 22 | The Zeltweg race was , after all , on Niki 's home territory , and when Prost spun off on a patch of oil , the race took on a new perspective for Niki : he found himself in the lead , with Piquet behind him and no threat with badly worn tyres . |
| 23 | Above the fireplace a layer of furry soot clung to the under-surface of the beams : on their upper surface flakes of chaff , from the autumn threshing on the roof , had lodged themselves in pockets , and as she swept , the black and yellow particles cascaded to the ground , then floated up on a cloud of swirling dust . |
| 24 | He coached abroad on a number of occasions , always refusing any kind of payment , even for his expenses , and his three visits to Harvard between 1896 and 1898 were rewarded by an honorary degree . |
| 25 | His imagination centred again on a kind of calque , a diagrammatic reversal . |
| 26 | There , she stamped hard on a bolt of panic that would have her turning swiftly about , and made herself press the porcelain doorbell . |
| 27 | An Executive Director attends part of each module , and at Sonning both David Davies and Chris Clark sat in on a part of the seminar , and spoke with course members . |
| 28 | Students , swept along on a wave of optimism , were not alone in their desires for political changes to match those taking place in the economic sphere . |
| 29 | The second cell ( 82c ) contains a moaning , naked Orc chained down on a bed of nails which rip the boil-infested flesh on his back . |
| 30 | Burun sat down on a pile of cushions on the floor , and settled himself to wait . |