Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edwards 's trailblazing feat opened the way to others : by the time he 'd strapped his board on the roof-rack of his car , he claimed , three other men were already out . |
| 2 | It was n't until after she 'd left that she 'd noticed his name on the football reports . |
| 3 | He 'd equipped his facility on the orbital Tech-Green research base — annexed to Sky City One — with an incuvat ; the means to commit virtual suicide in a complete reality . |
| 4 | They were grappling , and she 'd got her hand on the woman 's windpipe , holding her off , squeezing . |
| 5 | It was just as I was sitting down in the living room with my cup of coffee that I realised I 'd left my bag on the train . |
| 6 | In the present case there was a glaring absence of any reliable evidence as to exactly what happened on the occasion on which Mrs. Steed had placed her signature on the transfer . |
| 7 | The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals in July 1990 had overturned his conviction on the first charge and sent the other two convictions back to US District Court judge Gerhard A. Gesell , to determine whether testimony from any of the 67 witnesses at the original trial had been influenced — directly or indirectly — by information which North gave Congress under grant of limited immunity during four days of nationally televised interrogation in June 1987 [ see p. 37605 ] . |
| 8 | The most notorious of those centred on an incident in December 1982 when two unarmed members of the Republican paramilitary organisation , the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) , were shot dead after police officers had stopped their car on the edge of Armagh . |
| 9 | The French General , knowing he had earned his pat on the head from the Emperor , shouted derision at their retreat . |
| 10 | He had succeeded his father on the board of the Great Western Railway , although not in the chairmanship . |
| 11 | I had forgotten my quest on the previous day in the pleasure of the poets ' company . |
| 12 | Isambard had accepted his bond on the instant without a word of triumph or mockery , and left him alone to exult and grieve over his father 's belated legacy . |
| 13 | In November 1 172 he had met his father-in-law on the Norman border and it was believed that Louis VII had urged him to demand what was rightfully his . |
| 14 | She had turned her back on the lot of them , and married Frederick Bissett , from a terraced house in Leeds , bright boy of the street . |
| 15 | The sergeant bumped over the sleeping-policemen and gazed at the neatly trimmed lawns and hedges with aggrieved jealousy in his eyes : the private estate was a symbol of a world from which he was excluded , a world of privilege and snobbery , a world that had turned its back on the poor , the sick and the unfashionable who had been swarming round their car only ten minutes before . |
| 16 | The farm stands on a spur of moorland on the northern edge of the forest , and within 10 minutes I had turned my back on the corduroy battalions of trees and was striding under a still , cloudy sky over tussocks of rush and coarse grass , with my face to the long , bare shoulders of open hillside that flank the winding shallows of the East Kielder Burn . |
| 17 | Speculation that he had turned his back on the fast world of Wall Street finance was fuelled by reports that he has spent his time in prison studying the Jewish religion . |
| 18 | She was pointing at Sheridan Lorrimore , who had turned his back on the scene . |
| 19 | It was a time for thanking God that Matthew had turned his back on the badness that might have dragged him down . |
| 20 | Marion had seen his pennon on the galley , and was waiting for him as he walked tall and dignified behind the little girl . |
| 21 | Certainly these two had made their mark on the ever-widening fields of botany and horticulture when John Bartram wrote his first letter to Philip Miller on 20 April 1755 : |
| 22 | He had made his escape on the day he later confronted her father in the yard . |
| 23 | Carol Eastman , meanwhile , had written her screenplay on the inspiration of a Jack London story , which was similar moody vein to Ride the Whirlwind and she called hers The Shooting . |
| 24 | At the end of 1985 he qualified as a solicitor ( ‘ this was the safety net and I had written my thesis on the copyright laws , which has been very useful to me ’ ) , but he had already decided to take the plunge as a full time professional musician . |
| 25 | Ever since Victor had saved his life on the deadly ravine-wire crossing they had become firm friends . |
| 26 | Then , when she had joined him , he had shone his torch on the locks and inserted the three keys , first the Yale , and then the Ingersoll , and lastly the security lock which disconnected the electronic warning system from Guy 's Marsh police station . |
| 27 | Lanfranc had modelled his church on the one which he had built at Caen with its notably short and stubby choir . |
| 28 | They had spent the entire evening chatting like old friends , while she had preserved her silence on the sidelines . |
| 29 | In 1756 he had opened his poem On the Goodness of the Supreme Being with an invocation to Orpheus ( the Gentiles ' David ) which beseeches him for inspiration for his great religious theme : |
| 30 | When they reached port and had sold their catch on the market , radio-activity was discovered all over ship , crew and catch . |