Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but I say there , there were a couple of erm objections that came up during the course of the conversation which really resulted because you , you 'd fallen down on the actual structure , but having said that then again there were two or three examples that you apacked and you got through very well and you , you recovered yourself well on that and , and I say really I think that 's er that 's covered most of the bits that , that I felt were , were there . |
| 2 | Van Gelder had n't made any mistakes about her , Talbot thought , except that he 'd missed out on the wide green eyes and a rather bewitching smile . |
| 3 | He 'd danced here on the same legs that now lay dead beneath him , while Sartori had told him how he planned to take this wretched Dominion , and build in its midst a city that would shame Babylon ; danced for sheer exuberance , knowing his Maestro was a great man , and had it in his power to change the world . |
| 4 | Polybius explains in Book 3 why he proposes to extend his exposition to cover the next twenty years by saying : " Since judgements regarding either victors or vanquished based purely on the actual struggles are not final … |
| 5 | Sadly she deceived herself : as the sanitary authorities became convinced that cholera was water-borne and could be checked by means more immediately effective than prayer , public attention became focussed more on the sanitary inspector than on the parson . |
| 6 | Nought but a rabble he had gathered together on the fair island that lies to the east — of buccaneers and booty hunters and ruffianly runaways from the slaveships that are plying these waters most usefully . |
| 7 | Perhaps the toner fluid intoxicated her — there were over a hundred sheets to copy — or maybe it was the lack of air in the photocopying room , but after we had done and she had commented favourably on the comprehensive and detailed nature of the notes , she asked me to go out with her . |
| 8 | This man and my father had joined up on the same day , they went to the same school , played football together , both courted my mother and both fell in love with her — and she ended up marrying them both . |
| 9 | For the party that had leaned heavily on the established Church and derived satisfaction from its role as defender of the Church , the decline of religion was a serious blow . |
| 10 | She had leaned forward on the grassy bank and she was speaking and I could n't remember what she was saying . |
| 11 | Her father , finding in her many of the qualities he had admired in her mother , had given her far greater freedom from the harem than was normal and from childhood she had sat in on the political and intellectual discussions her father had with his cronies . |
| 12 | They had sat together on the other scaffolding and watched the Graces dance . |
| 13 | Crucial to the conviction was evidence from Pederick , who had , at his own trial , admitted planting the bomb and further claimed at Anderson 's trial that he had done so on the latter 's instructions . |
| 14 | She was at the age when many women are at their physical best : tall , thin , but shapely ; smart , but not too dauntingly so ; fragrant ( a touch of Poison ) ; and fun : she had mastered early on the necessary female skill of charity towards her suitors ' jokes . |
| 15 | The voice belonged to George , he had drawn up on the other side of the road , and as I walked towards him his voice was getting impatient . |
| 16 | The police reported that a number of fires — believed to be malicious had ignited simultaneously on the fourth floor . |
| 17 | These were trivial afflictions compared with the burden which had disappeared , gone like the flapping black wings of carrion crow that had gorged enough on the dead flesh in the field . |
| 18 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 19 | sometimes it may be to do with dress , demeanour , mannerisms , you know , kind of again you know people go for oh I do n't know , I mean there 's a conversation er I remember overhearing erm with some friends in Leicester and they , they go to motorbike rallies a lot and erm er they were describing an incident where they pitched their tent at a rally and some blokes came up and pitched their tent next to them and they were erm two blokes had arrived together on the same enormous immaculate motorbike and they 'd got sort of matching leather outfits erm |
| 20 | His Dad had pulled up on the other side of the road . |
| 21 | She had concentrated hard on the mundane chores , hoping , unsuccessfully , to keep Nathan Bryce out of her thoughts . |
| 22 | This left Briton Derek Warwick , in a Footwork , in seventh place after he had spun off on the final lap in the rain . |
| 23 | In one case this had happened twice on the same land and was about to happen a third time for bulldozer had arrived to destroy a newly erected building where a woman stood in the way , she was one of the nuns helping in the area ; the defence was successful . |
| 24 | The young art student was about nineteen when he died ; he had worked hard on the dramatic murals in the studio and then he tried mixing drugs with drink and that was fatal . |
| 25 | He and Pam had taken off on the very day the fair ended — a fact that did not go unnoticed by the locals . |
| 26 | In the two days since the men had been gone the girls had become close friends , beginning from the moment Joanna had knocked timidly on the solar door soon after Guy had left . |
| 27 | There was a goodly stretch of garden between Hilda 's sitting-room and the road , but later that evening at least three people who had passed by on the other side of the wall commented on the row in the Spinners ' Arms . |
| 28 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 29 | The Crown Prince could recall how , the previous year , when Hindenburg and Ludendorff had stood seemingly on the very brink of a Russian collapse , Falkenhayn had terminated the immensely successful Gorlice offensive . |
| 30 | Indeed , it had expired almost on the short journey home . |