Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I got Toby on the second ring and explained Sally 's suggestion .
2 We visited Paleokastritsa on the western side , famed for its bays shadowed by magnificent cliffs .
3 ‘ They played Ards on the first day of the season and wiped the floor with us in a 3–0 win .
4 yeah no its twenty five to ten though , still got Poirot on the other side
5 Young Irish star Adrian Maguire joined Scudamore on the 32 winner mark yesterday with Richard Dunwoody just one behind .
6 I heard Duncan on the 606 show and he made the classic comment about Jimmy Armfield that ‘ the manager 's indecision is final ’ .
7 He touched Joseph on the shiny sleeve of his coat and nodded towards the large-faced clock on the wall above the door , " I 've got to go , Mother is expecting me home for lunch .
8 It was funny I should have just tidied the room this day , thought Nessie as the two strangers laid Kevin on the new-made bed .
9 I called Ollie on the black phone , the secure phone , to find out what was going on , to fill in my knowledge a little bit more .
10 DAY 42 and Michael and the team hit Istanbul on the last boat out of Odessa .
11 ‘ I saw Celia on the other side of the road and ran across to her .
12 He was on the pavement , waiting , when he saw Volkov on the opposite side of the road .
13 Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime .
14 When I met Francis on the first occasion in that throne room , life had not turned sour for him .
15 Answering the indictment on Feb. 26 , Zhivkov pleaded not guilty , as did Balev on the following day .
16 Home-bred by Derby winning owner Khalid Abdullah , Tremolando made virtually all the running to come home ten lengths clear of Graegos and put Eddery on the 55 mark .
17 Instinctively Creggan crept closer to Minch , as did Kraal on the far side of her , trying to catch her whispered words , which seemed to drift as slow and powerful as the mist into which she spoke them .
18 On May 21st the base commission put Everett on the possible-closure list .
19 He put Franklin on the other side of Burns , and separated the Malcolms by making a sandwich of Bill O'Farrell .
20 ‘ But why did n't you talk it over with your mother or your aunt before you went ahead with something quite so drastic ? ’ enquired Daphne on the twenty-sixth day .
21 Welcome back … later on … the Beatrix Potter story that put Gloucester on the literary map
22 The frigate , an SKR 815 under the command of Ukrainian Sergei Nastenko and manned by a crew which had sworn loyalty to Ukraine in January , left Donuzla on the Crimean peninsula without permission on July 21 and hoisted the Ukrainian flag .
23 That was Courtaulds ' buoyant message to the market when it launched Tencel on the latest stage of its pioneering journey in December .
24 First it was Past President Jeffrey Horsfield who married Deborah on the idyllic island of Mauritius on June 22nd .
25 ‘ Oh , fine , ’ said Jay on the unstoppable switchback of Nightmare Alley .
26 In 1688 , William responded to these requests by invading England on behalf of the Protestant cause , and subsequently replaced James on the English throne .
27 Further naval action marked this day when Force ‘ H ’ attacked Genoa on the Italian north-west coast .
28 Eva knew a man on the local paper , the same co-operative journalist who got Charlie on the front page of the Bromley and Kentish Times , and he interviewed Dad .
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