Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | When they 'd landed back on the plate , he leaned forward , studying the pattern they 'd formed . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | I 'd gone out on the boat |
| 9 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , that — I , er — got cut up on the rocks canoeing , Matron . |
| 13 | One of them was less than an inch away from his eye as he lay buckled up on the ground beneath the tree . |
| 14 | Lorton had jumped up on the gazebo . |
| 15 | He had barely glanced at her , and she had blurted out on the spur of the moment , ‘ Fine . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Pete had given up on the stew and was eating the pudding . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When the trucks arrived we unloaded them , watching those who had fallen out on the march as they disembarked . |
| 24 | Fenella , who had never seen a map quite like this one , had curled up on the floor to listen . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | One or two of the demonstrating ladies had sat down on the pavement ( they should never have shown Gandhi on TV ) and were singing ‘ the one with the waggerly tail … ’ with gusto . |
| 27 | If a bird had looked down on the quarry in the next few seconds it would have been amazed . |
| 28 | Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 29 | This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again . |
| 30 | During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet . |