Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | A van passed them on the other carriageway . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
| 6 | Mr Carman went on : ‘ Is it right Mr Mellor visited you on a social basis in the daytime without his wife ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ The Yorkshire Evening Post ( YEP ) used it on the front page with a by-line . |
| 15 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 16 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 17 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 18 | He worked each through a transition training programme with the assigned aircraft and schooled them on the forthcoming filming . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The wind we had waited for so long quickly rose to gale force , and drove us on a desperate roller-coaster ride for five days and nights . |
| 21 | The main street of the village faced them on the other side of the Westport road . |
| 22 | ‘ Like it ? ’ asked Sergeant , who had dashed round through the gate and now welcomed them on the other side . |
| 23 | He joined them on a non-contract basis . |
| 24 | The dark bulk of St Catherine 's faced him on the other side of the wide road . |
| 25 | He joined her on the cushioned seat . |
| 26 | Never quite stationary , the mag-lev decanted her on a windy platform and whined away into the cavernous tunnel . |
| 27 | Putting down his carrot , Hazel ran across , scrambled up the bank and joined him on the bare ground under the low , close boughs . |
| 28 | The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly . |
| 29 | In developing the character of Frank Spencer from Raymond Allen 's scripts , he partly based it on a young man with bicycle clips whom he had seen in Battersea . |
| 30 | Cromwell 's foreign policy has been called out-of-date , because he based it on the bellicose anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feeling of the reign of Elizabeth . |