Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everyone made money on the immigrant worker — from the big-time capitalist to the slum landlord — from exploiting his colour , his customs , his culture . |
| 2 | The Viking Hotel in York was cut off by the River Ouse after rising water stopped work on a new pumping station designed to stop flooding . |
| 3 | We use a norm referenced method on the cumulative result to identify those students who require further tuition in our discipline . |
| 4 | The 20-year-old from Portsmouth found space on the six-yard line to tap in Gordon Durie 's cross after half an hour . |
| 5 | A wave of strikes , protests and hunger strikes over the economy maintained pressure on the new government . |
| 6 | Inside they found oil on the concrete floor and , imprinted by that oil , a tracery of tyre marks . |
| 7 | On one occasion the voice of Jack Peach , one of our versatile announcers , described Christmas on the Canadian west coast , including the cries of sea-gulls wheeling over the docks . |
| 8 | AN EDINBURGH University student caused chaos on a vast scale by hacking into computers around the world from a £200 desktop machine in his bedroom , a London court was told yesterday . |
| 9 | In addition to receiving subscription revenue , the AWCC received rent on a local property it owned . |
| 10 | ‘ He played tennis on a high level for two and half hours , and did n't give me time to breathe , and that caught me by surprise a little bit , ’ said Boris Becker , his prize scalp , after the German had lost . |
| 11 | ‘ They caused trouble on the least provocation . |
| 12 | In both experiments , subjects were trained initially to respond with different verbal labels to a set of visual stimuli and then received training on a motor task with these same stimuli . |
| 13 | only threw light on a de-iced porthole . |
| 14 | When the Ottoman empire declared war on a foreign state its unfortunate representative in Constantinople was very often immediately thrown into the Seven Towers prison there , where he might stay for a considerable time . |
| 15 | In his rage he declared war on the whole animal tribe , swearing that he would exterminate the lot of them , and recapture his daughter at the same time . |
| 16 | On 4 August 1914 , Great Britain , together with her Dominions and Colonies , declared war on the German Empire . |
| 17 | In his A Brief Discourse of … the Countrie Divinitie , published in 1581 , the Elizabethan Puritan , George Gifford , poured scorn on an uneducated countryman for his lack of theological knowledge . |
| 18 | This implicit acceptance of the wider consequences of removing the right to abortion — opinion surveys showed consistent majority support for retaining the 1973 precedent — together with the emergence of the three-member centrist bloc on the Court , threw doubt on the widespread assumption that it was only a matter of time before the Court eventually overturned Roe v. Wade . |
| 19 | The prosecution alleges that , to justify the shooting , the soldiers said they opened fire on a stolen car after it had struck one of their patrol . |
| 20 | The town forced the army to withdraw in December 1990 , after soldiers opened fire on a peaceful demonstration , killing 13 villagers , including a nine-year-old boy . |
| 21 | A SENTRYMAN opened fire on an armed gang who infiltrated one of Britain 's biggest army bases . |
| 22 | ROMANIAN security troops opened fire on an unarmed crowd with machine guns just down the street from the US embassy in Bucharest , an appalled State Department spokesman announced yesterday , expressing official condemnation of Romania 's ‘ barbaric oppression ’ . |
| 23 | Karen Reilly ( 18 ) and her friend Martin Peake ( 17 ) died when soldiers opened fire on the stolen car they were in at Upper Glen Road . |
| 24 | Karen Reilly ( 18 ) and Martin Peake ( 17 ) died when soldiers opened fire on the stolen car they were in at Upper Glen Road . |
| 25 | Above : Zairian troops opened fire on the peaceful demonstration . |
| 26 | I opened fire on the leading figure . |
| 27 | The Charter , like most political manifesto , threw vitriol on the current state of affairs in Trinidad , political as well as social , and then went on to describe much that they would do to improve the situation ; but then , to paraphrase Andy Rice-Davies — they would would n't they ? |
| 28 | The task of recovering this piece from disaster fell to David Woodward who promptly rented time on a thicknessing sander owned in another workshop locally and sanded the original veneers off . |
| 29 | By contrast , Judge Lauterpacht retained this emphasis in his insistence that the General Assembly could only authorise the oral hearings if South Africa continued to frustrate the operation of the Mandate ; he laid stress on the continued status of the territory . |
| 30 | At about the same time , Nadia Thalmann began work on a new project at the University of Geneva , animating synthetic actors using artificial intelligence and robotics . |