Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or got on the same bus . |
| 2 | For two summer holidays my parents took a Prep school outside Westerham and from here we bicycled over half of Kent with our Father or played on the small school fields or swam in the local swimming bath . |
| 3 | In the shower cubicle , water hissed on ceramic tile or clattered on the green plastic curtain , according to the gyrations of the nude body within . |
| 4 | They can dispense with the claim that science must start with unbiased and unprejudiced observation by making a distinction between the way a theory is first thought of or discovered on the one hand , and the way in which it is justified or its merits assessed on the other . |
| 5 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |
| 6 | And if you 're worried in case anyone in the family has drunk out of a cup her husband used , or sat on the same loo seat or given him a friendly kiss , relax . |
| 7 | On Nov. 23-25 representatives of France and Indonesia , as co-chairs of the PICC , met with the other four permanent members of the UN Security Council in Paris and agreed on the final draft of the Cambodian peace settlement . |
| 8 | The light shone on to his upturned face and gleamed on the burnished flanks of the mare who blew through her nose impatiently as though to ask what they were waiting for . |
| 9 | When the sunbeams struck into his room through the rustling blinds , and quivered on the opposite wall like golden water , he knew that evening was coming on , and that the sky was red and beautiful ( 3 ) . |
| 10 | Sentences ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) illustrate the point : ( 2 ) He lay there listening to the noises not caring how time went but watching it and watching everything … ( 3 ) When the sunbeams struck into his room and quivered on the opposite wall through the rustling blinds like golden water he knew that evening was coming on , and that the sky was red and beautiful . |
| 11 | When he sensed that the politicians were afraid enough of the army to come to terms with him ( as they seemed to be after learning that troops based in Algeria had seized control of the island of Corsica on 24 – 25 May ) , he flashed a red light to Algiers and moved on the political front in Paris . |
| 12 | The association was chaired by John Hume and drew on the self-help traditions of the credit unions . |
| 13 | I clambered over the wall and dropped on the other side and made my way quickly across the field in the direction of the cottage . |
| 14 | Grabbing Maura 's hand she ran up the stairs and banged on the front door with her fists , demanding to be let in . |
| 15 | He slipped in beside her and crunched on the dusty taste of a Rennie . |
| 16 | The Williams locked its rear wheels , spun and stalled on the racing line — just out of the sight of those following . |
| 17 | In an interview on Feb. 4 , the Prince said that the Khmers Rouges had finally accepted the change " because they are aware they have become more and more isolated and hated on the international level " . |
| 18 | She crossed the road and hammered on the heavy smithy door . |
| 19 | Deuce leaned into the bath and turned on the golden taps which fed water through a central feed at a prodigious rate . |
| 20 | ‘ It appears the child copied his mother and turned on the hot water tap , ’ said police . |
| 21 | Half in panic , half in the laughter of release , she turned and turned on the same spot . |
| 22 | Her daughter wiped her clean , and then went over to the little table and turned on the portable television . |
| 23 | The next second he had put her under the shower and turned on the cold tap . |
| 24 | He propelled her over to the sink and turned on the cold tap , holding her hand beneath it . |
| 25 | The spiked pad ripped through the Daughter 's blouse , and grated on the armoured contour-girdle underneath . |
| 26 | Then we used to sniff , you know , and Mrs come and knocked on the front door says er , our house is asleep do you mind not playing , you know . |
| 27 | He went to her house and knocked on the green door . |
| 28 | Without ceremony , we headed past all these busy people and knocked on the half-open door of the secretary 's office . |
| 29 | Whitlock left the suite and knocked on the adjoining door . |
| 30 | Tiny pieces of skin shrivelled and cooked on the red-hot ring and wisps of smoke rose into the air . |