Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] on [art] [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 BODY found washed up on a beach in Kent has been confirmed as that of missing Essex woman Lisa Benner . |
| 3 | A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket . |
| 4 | I rushed him to hospital and the doctor asked how it was done and I said he 'd fallen over on the step . |
| 5 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When they 'd landed back on the plate , he leaned forward , studying the pattern they 'd formed . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | I 'd gone out on the boat |
| 11 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ Oh , that — I , er — got cut up on the rocks canoeing , Matron . |
| 15 | One of them was less than an inch away from his eye as he lay buckled up on the ground beneath the tree . |
| 16 | Her mother 's was on a tray with fine china , nothing to eat , slices of lemon for the pale , scented tea she liked laid out on a glass dish like a shell . |
| 17 | Lorton had jumped up on the gazebo . |
| 18 | He had barely glanced at her , and she had blurted out on the spur of the moment , ‘ Fine . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The activists had given up on a people 's peace — and they were not yet ready to explore the possibilities of a people 's war . |
| 24 | It seemed that NoS was going to be the first to tap the huge reservoir of people who had given up on the papers altogether . |
| 25 | Pete had given up on the stew and was eating the pudding . |
| 26 | In a press conference on Aug. 1 Danforth stated that he " had given up on the administration " but that he intended to introduce his compromise bill when Congress reconvened from its summer recess . |
| 27 | When the trucks arrived we unloaded them , watching those who had fallen out on the march as they disembarked . |
| 28 | Lucy had curled up on a pile of old throwouts in the corner of the Wardrobe department , and had pulled some of them over herself like a burrowing animal . |
| 29 | Fenella , who had never seen a map quite like this one , had curled up on the floor to listen . |
| 30 | As the freak end of the underground had dropped in on the LSE , so the politicos , or would-be politicos , packed their bags for Alexandra Palace . |