Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] on [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's that at the age of 34 , fourteen years after first shambling on stage in downtown Chicago , having criss-crossed the stand-up circuit from coast to coast and guested on very hip chat show from David Letterman to Arsenio Hall , he should be bigger than he is . |
| 2 | As a consequence , psychobiologists turned away from these sorts of issues and concentrated on supposedly simpler problems like emotion and motivation . |
| 3 | Under a Labour government , duty , in the form of VAT , would be lowered on environmentally safe products and raised on environmentally damaging ones such as heavy metal batteries , CFC-containing aerosols and non-returnable drinks cans . |
| 4 | But if you were a cox who 'd overeaten and put on too much weight , this is where your crew might have brought you — to Brakspear 's brewery on the river bank . |
| 5 | Sir David acknowledged a demand for political reforms to be speeded up , but hedged on how far Britain would go in backing them . |
| 6 | Ratner , 42 , stepped down as chairman but stayed on as chief executive . |