Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] on [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1348 the king restored the Earl of Lancaster 's title to the Honour and castle of Pontefract , which he had hitherto held on lease from the queen , ‘ having regard to the good service and great honour which our … cousin has done us in Gascony ’ . |
| 2 | It was a world beyond my wildest dreams ; one I had only seen on celluloid in the cinema at Fontanellato . |
| 3 | While I am about it , I had better apologise on behalf of a contributor , who was castigated by post for not looking up the meaning of a phrase that was , to him , mysterious . |
| 4 | Many of the officers were released after Gen. Tanay had apparently gone on strike in protest . |
| 5 | However , an EC threat to contribute only half of the amount deemed necessary for Bulgaria and Romania ( respectively $800 million and $1,000 million ) did not materialize , as EC Finance Ministers , meeting separately , had already decided on aid to these countries without the precondition of equal contributions from their G-24 partners . |
| 6 | At times Kylie , who had already appeared on television by then , would talk of her hopes for fame . |
| 7 | Carter had already excavated on behalf of Lord Amherst in the 1890s , but it was during his period with Lord Carnarvan that he made his most spectacular and significant finds , digging at Thebes and in the Valley of the Kings . |
| 8 | Detectives involved in the murder inquiry had not been fooled by Green 's charade of wanting to help them — he had even appeared on TV with a tearful plea for aid in finding the killer . |
| 9 | Blue Leader , Lt. ‘ Jimmie ’ Gardner ( who had previously flown on attachment to the RAF and had claimed five victories whilst with Sqn.Ldr . |
| 10 | When he passed through an ivy-clad trellis arch and saw the man he sought , however , raking dead leaves and twigs into an incinerator , he realized how absurd the idea was that they could somehow be twin actors of the same part who had never met on stage till this unscripted moment . |