Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If you did , if you failed them on a regular basis , you would n't be here , right ?
2 They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave .
3 One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent .
4 The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island .
5 As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone .
6 A van passed them on the other carriageway .
7 A car passed them on the single track road , heading north ; they stood aside to let it pass , waving at the single occupant when he waved at them .
8 First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child .
9 ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day .
10 Mr Carman went on : ‘ Is it right Mr Mellor visited you on a social basis in the daytime without his wife ? ’
11 I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma .
12 Already involved with her longstanding boyfriend Neil Turley , Jenny declined his advances , but undaunted , fearless Frank phoned her on a regular basis and left messages with her unsuspecting boyfriend , a West Ham fan who was flattered that the team 's top scorer was training so late at night .
13 I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all .
14 The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye .
15 Rose gave a yelp of rage , her arm shot out and Evelyn gave an involuntary cry as the stone caught her on the left shoulder .
16 As preparation for his new appointment the BDA sponsored him on a two-year course at Bulmershe College , now Reading University , for a certificate in youth and community work , which he duly obtained .
17 Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear .
18 In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap .
19 It was a royal monopoly , and an earlier King Arkesilas is depicted on a Spartan vase of the mid-sixth century supervising his officials as they weighed it on a man-size balance ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate vi .
20 ‘ The Yorkshire Evening Post ( YEP ) used it on the front page with a by-line .
21 But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four .
22 He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move .
23 ‘ I found it on the barbed wire .
24 He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand .
25 GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground .
26 He worked each through a transition training programme with the assigned aircraft and schooled them on the forthcoming filming .
27 Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) .
28 I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris .
29 He considered it more dangerous than any horse he had ever ridden , and drove it on a tight rein , seldom exceeding 35 m.p.h .
30 My friend 's friend advised us on the best solicitors for a rape case , but warned that the final bill might be enough to buy a flat in Mayfair .
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