Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief executive of Medway Ports , Peter Vincent , said yesterday the area involved centred on the open sea wall used by Royal Fleet Auxiliary tankers , and not the adjacent nuclear submarine refitting facility . |
| 2 | She 'd sat on the stubby grass , cut short as the back of a soldier 's head . |
| 3 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 4 | It was the decision she 'd made on the silent journey back to the hotel , and one she intended to keep . |
| 5 | And on a er visit to a museum a few weeks later he also discovered flying boots of exact prints he 'd seen on the wet floor . |
| 6 | He 'd rapped on the open door as he 'd passed it , and said , ‘ Who called for International Rescue ? ’ |
| 7 | Charlie ignored me , as he was ignoring most of his friends since he 'd appeared on the front page of the Bromley and Kentish Times with his band , Must n't Grumble , after an open-air gig in a local sports ground . |
| 8 | He had to leave after the first rehearsals when the only line he could remember was the one he 'd tried on the leading lady the night before . |
| 9 | With current account performance playing the dominant role in determining the demand for and supply of currencies , attention became focused on the relative competitiveness of each country 's goods and services in international markets . |
| 10 | She looked around for somewhere to sit , but the bed looked bigger than ever in the cramped room and his jacket lay discarded on the only chair . |
| 11 | As she passed the back door she noticed that the lid had fallen off the dustbin and the fresh spring wind was playing havoc with the bits of paper and odds and ends that lay strewn on the tiled path . |
| 12 | People were throwing things over her garden wall and someone had painted on the front door . |
| 13 | As it was , to Pétain , mindful of the chaos he had witnessed on the icy road the day of his arrival , there was room for every possible doubt . |
| 14 | One of our sherpa porters had stumbled on the rough ground and to save himself had slipped his headstrap to release his load . |
| 15 | There was a certain ritual quality in this exchange , as though Melanie had stumbled on the secret sequence of words that would lead her safe over the sword-edge bridge into the Castle of Corbenic . |
| 16 | They had stopped on the high point , where they could look across their own little valley to the dark sea , and back into another valley lined with lush woods . |
| 17 | But in the massive ballroom across the way there were only a few chairs and a sideboard or two , and even on a dismal day the light had fallen on the intricate design of a wooden parquet floor and pretty chiaroscuro frescoes painted into the panels of gracefully arched walls . |
| 18 | The sapling trees had grown tall in the twenty-five years since the Beeching axe had fallen on the single railway track , and , even leafless as they were , they effectively screened the view from the top . |
| 19 | Theda had drawn the curtain about the four-poster open , and the light from her candle had fallen on the old lady 's face . |
| 20 | Attlee and Ernest Bevin , the Foreign Secretary , had sat on the key Coalition Cabinet committees on post-war reconstruction at home and overseas . |
| 21 | No shrewder opportunist had sat on the English throne , but his opportunism was harnessed to some guiding principles . |
| 22 | Or that was how it had looked on the final report . |
| 23 | A Slovak without party affiliation , Ehrenberger replaced Theodor Petrik , who had resigned on the previous day . |
| 24 | When she had stopped the car and climbed out , she wondered for a moment whether she had come on the wrong day or at the wrong time , though she was sure she had not . |
| 25 | Tessa had turned on the little light on the bedside table , but otherwise the room was in darkness , and for some moments Bob stood by the door , twisting his head backwards and forwards , trying to take the situation in . |
| 26 | Furthermore , these gentlemen had noticed on the local map three villages in the vicinity called Morphy , Saltash and Brigoon . |
| 27 | Perhaps they got on with their lives under the carpeted floor somewhere , while they were whisked to all the places Masklin had seen on the only map the nomes had ever found . |
| 28 | The Doctor had bent to examine something he had seen on the dappled carpet beside the communications terminal . |
| 29 | I went inside and saw a beautiful work which the artist had done on the other side . |
| 30 | Nigeria 's President Babangida on Aug. 16 spoke out against unilateral production increases , while Indonesia had said on the previous day that OPEC should first let the industrialized countries draw down their stockpiles . |