Example sentences of "[vb past] on [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He concentrated on staying on the front foot , took few risks and made 35 from 45 deliveries with seven fours , then played Morrison on . |
| 2 | I was drunk as a pig and insisted on stamping on every bloody spider I found on my way back to our chamber . |
| 3 | They reflected as to whether division at the top of the Korean peninsula might not be preferable but believed that the 38th parallel could be accepted if the Russians insisted on moving into the northern part of the peninsula . |
| 4 | And yet again , Charles insisted on flying on the same plane as his sons William and Harry . |
| 5 | She lifted a bottle of Champagne from among the photographs cluttering the occasional table beside her and passed it to Charity with an instruction to fill the glasses and hold the chatter , because she insisted on listening to the nine o'clock news on the wireless . |
| 6 | The novel insisted on reverting to the ampler great-sinner pattern ; hence Stavrogin 's emergence as ‘ chief character ’ , ‘ tragic villain ’ and so forth during this period , and Peter Verkhovensky 's withdrawal to the second rank : Verkhovensky the mere wrecker , the nihilist , the man of the 1860s , the deeper realist 's answer to Turgenev . |
| 7 | Farmers argued that as their day already began at sunrise , they would gain nothing and would also lose an hour for their workers insisted on finishing at the same time as town dwellers . |