Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other couples wandered in their wake , or else lingered on the hilltop by the Commemorative stone , happier in their partners . |
| 2 | Transitions between orbitals that are largely or completely localized on a metal center are usually described as d-d ( or , for elements with partly filled f sub-shells , f-f ) transitions . |
| 3 | There was another face then , which did n't have to be invented : a moustached face that had recently and endlessly appeared on the television news , the face of a man who was accused of battering to death the nanny of his children , of attempting to do the same to his wife . |
| 4 | Jimmy Marks had become the Commander of No 35 Squadron and so arrived on the day that the Pathfinders were formed with his hind-picked aircrews from No 1 Group . |
| 5 | There were thousands of the creatures flying above them and ominously silhouetted on the witch trees at the edge of the plain . |
| 6 | Discussions at the meeting of the Council of Internal Market Ministers held on 18 June failed to result in any agreement on the long outstanding European Company Statute , first proposed in 1970 and long deadlocked on the issue of employee participation . |
| 7 | Back with the dancers , Humphreys peeled off all his clothes , started playing with himself and finally urinated on the dance-floor . |
| 8 | He staggered and fell the last few feet and finally collapsed on the mud and grass of the bank . |
| 9 | I put one foot on his shoulder and as I climbed up , making room for him , he raised himself and finally stood on the platform , helping me as far as possible . |
| 10 | He slid out of the saddle and gratefully sat on a bench that was shaded by a small chestnut tree . |
| 11 | The defendant , Ballay and another employee of the shop , named Rai , were arrested and later tried on an indictment the fourth and fifth counts in which charged all three with theft contrary to section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 in respect of the two transactions . |
| 12 | Their father Paddy , a former inter-provincial player , was a key member of the last title winning side and also figured on the double winning line up of 1966 . |
| 13 | Nadia has already seen a good deal of Scotland , and also went on a school trip to France and Belgium when pupils of St Mary 's accompanied members of a pensioners ' lunch club to find out about the European Community and the European Parliament . |
| 14 | recorded live in front of 125,000 people at the band 's August Party In The Park show , and also featured on the band 's forthcoming LP ‘ Live Alive Quo ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I had ridden Ile de Bourbon for trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton in all of his home gallops and also won on the colt in the King Edward VII stakes at Royal Ascot but when Piggott asked me had the horse made any improvement from then and before the big King George race I had to tell him that I was unaware of it just in case he might want to take over . |
| 16 | They hovered over the playing fields and even sat on the goal posts . |
| 17 | Zen slowly mounted the steps , and then paused on the threshold . |
| 18 | The plaintiffs also appealed against the decision of taxing master right , er and then appealed on the basis that er there should be no disallowance for any interest at all . |
| 19 | Graham watched in horror as Iain slid down a rocky buttress , and then waited on a ledge for 12 hours until rescued by the RAF . |
| 20 | She trained at Liverpool ( S.R.N. , S.C.M. , Q.1.D.N.S. , Hospital Gold Medal 1963 ) and then went on the district in her native Westmorland . |
| 21 | She got ready for bed and then stood on the balcony looking at the moonlit night and the mountains . |
| 22 | He sucked it , sniffing , and then started on a leg . |
| 23 | He picked up the wine cup and sipped from it and then sat on the bed next to Sir John , staring down at the great wooden bed posters . |
| 24 | I had lunch and then sat on the wheelbarrow swatting flies , neither willing to go further out of my way , nor to return , just in case I was on the right track . |
| 25 | The defendant , Ballay and Jatindur Rai , another employee of Bennetts Retail , were arrested and jointly tried on an indictment alleging two counts of handling the stolen cheques against Ballay ( counts 1 and 2 ) , one count of conspiracy ( count 3 , which was not proceeded with ) and two counts of theft of the electrical goods against all the defendants ( counts 4 and 5 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Luke got thrown out of the play and never appeared on the school stage again . ’ |
| 27 | He scorned special equipment and commonly appeared on a mountain or in a jungle as he would in Bond Street . |
| 28 | By Prince Regent , out of a mare by Run The Gantlet , he has a flat race pedigree but never ran on the level . |