Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 2 | A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket . |
| 3 | I rushed him to hospital and the doctor asked how it was done and I said he 'd fallen over on the step . |
| 4 | Close-to and without their performance wigs , these two hardly seemed to connect with anyone that she 'd seen out on the stage less than an hour before ; then they 'd been all front , carnival vamps , not so much real human beings as fantasy figures with hidden human operators . |
| 5 | They 'd talked little on the way back , Delaney desperately trying to find another reason , however unlikely , for Connors not briefing him fully . |
| 6 | Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound . |
| 7 | When they 'd landed back on the plate , he leaned forward , studying the pattern they 'd formed . |
| 8 | Well I wondered if he 'd wa he 'd gone out on the Nottingham cos I wondered what would happen to the mascot was he shot the mascot , after the the game ? |
| 9 | I 'd gone out on the boat |
| 10 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 11 | The twinkle in his eye was reassuring , but when we tied up at Tobermory and the purser pointed out to sea where a group of small rocks ( or so it seemed ) showed strung out on the horizon like a mother duck with her ducklings after her , I felt a cowardly twinge , and found myself wondering what the ‘ relatively mod cons ’ could be . |
| 12 | Mr Cook writing on that day states that measuring from the top of the overlying humus to the bones the depth was 173 cm and the greatest depth 190 cm , the position of the bones in the deposit was as follows : The trunk was supine north-west by south-east , the skull rested tilted forward on the ribs to north-west . |
| 13 | The family Rover also became bogged down on the beach road and his brother Anwar suffered a heart attack after spending a night on the open beach . |
| 14 | In the end , the question of defamiliarization became focused primarily on the issue of language , and this is what gives Formalist theory both its power and its distinctiveness . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , that — I , er — got cut up on the rocks canoeing , Matron . |
| 16 | One of them was less than an inch away from his eye as he lay buckled up on the ground beneath the tree . |
| 17 | He had withdrawn there on the advice of several people ( including myself ) that Downing Street was an impossible place for anyone whose curiosity extended to seeing every telegram that came in at whatever time of the day or night . |
| 18 | Lorton had jumped up on the gazebo . |
| 19 | The two men had collaborated before on the design of lightning protectors , and the Lodge–Muirhead Wireless Telegraphy Syndicate Ltd. was formed in 1901 . |
| 20 | Cowley leafed through the file that Bodie had gathered together on the girl . |
| 21 | They were not , by modern standards , especially radical in tone ; but they introduced to a wider public the new approaches to the critical study of the Bible which up till then had developed more on the Continent , and only to some extent in the cloistered world of the English universities . |
| 22 | He had barely glanced at her , and she had blurted out on the spur of the moment , ‘ Fine . |
| 23 | Shirley had clattered noisily on the linoleum , had huffed and puffed and banged about , and finally had said with some passion , ‘ You 're barmy . ’ |
| 24 | Helen , alarmed and suspecting infidelity ( there had been an episode in the past concerning which Louise had boiled away on the telephone for months on end ) , asked what was wrong with him . |
| 25 | He had a high-rolling joint on the SS Nocturne , a ship anchored outside the limits , and some nasty rumours had floated back on the tides along with a well-dressed corpse or two . |
| 26 | It was Christmas Eve and Agnes had wondered over the last few days if she had heard aright on the night she had gone to the closet , because the next morning her father had come blithely into the kitchen and said , ‘ Your mother is having a lie-in this morning ; take her a cup of tea along and a bit of toast . |
| 27 | School had broken up on the Thursday of that week , and on Friday evening Cassie saw Ben at his car , packing his holiday luggage in the boot . |
| 28 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 29 | Production day supervisor Bob Hodson illustrated the point : ‘ ICI phoned earlier to say the tanker with the morning delivery of phenol had broken down on the motorway and would n't be here until four o'clock . |
| 30 | The movies had been born in big cities and had depended initially on the attraction that they held for working people who found themselves crowded either as permanent residents or transients in those cities . |