Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That quite compensated for the insult he had offered her on the stairs . |
| 2 | Patrick had briefed him on the reasons for their sudden turnaround in Bucharest and the dash back to the Channel . |
| 3 | But by now the rising waters had isolated them on the islands of Borneo , Sumatra and Java . |
| 4 | And of course that was why Hardy had taken against him , why he had left him on the sidelines any time he picked a team for some action , why he had now given him a job that he knew anyone else in the unit would have balked at . |
| 5 | So it must have been the Gharrgoyles who had put me on the planets surface to die . |
| 6 | The profession 's eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma , forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality . |
| 7 | On one occasion an Irish visitor asked a late tenant , Mr Crawshaw , if the lady in white who had passed him on the stairs would be coming down to breakfast soon . |
| 8 | In that minute Troy had kissed her on the lips . |