Example sentences of "[vb past] on [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our magpie memories lingered on the oddities of war in North Devon and Cornwall — of chocolates , cigarettes and , yes , French letters being washed up on the beach . |
| 2 | The discomfort in his chest had settled to a hoarseness as the bruise blossomed , but his stomach churned on the lees of booze and bile . |
| 3 | With the help of others , he expounded on the hazards of frost , fire , ice , rain , snow , water and wind . |
| 4 | Irritated by the lost opportunity to speak to her aunt in private , she went to the typewriter and began on the letters of confirmation . |
| 5 | The aims of these two movements , in so far as they touched on the rites of death , were sharply dissimilar : the Evangelicals aimed further to sanctify death as the gateway to immortality ; the Benthamites wished to demystify death in order to concentrate on the material means of increasing human happiness on earth . |
| 6 | Stephen worked on the armchairs till lunchtime . |
| 7 | He started on the Martinis before takeoff . |
| 8 | A shiny view : ‘ Deer Moly , Yestiday I went on the dojums with Jakdo I lik it heer . |
| 9 | The whole burden of these cuts fell on the colleges of education partly because , as we have seen , their numbers could be swiftly regulated and partly because they were still for the most part institutions predominantly concerned with teacher education . |
| 10 | Both rejected positivistic literary scholarship and called for a renewed attention to literature as literature ; both insisted on the differences between literature and other kinds of writing , and tried to define these differences in theoretical terms ; both gave a central role in their definitions to ideas of structure and interrelatedness , and treated the literary text as an object essentially independent of its author and its historical context . |
| 11 | Narrow staircases , infested with mouse droppings , where those who had no money whatsoever huddled on the steps for shelter , coming like wraiths in the night when they were less likely to be turned away , and drifting off again in the early morning . |
| 12 | As had occurred before , and was to occur again , pacifist agitators had more impact on the reorganization of the party system than they did on the issues of war and peace that they were trying to affect . |
| 13 | He spoke on the evils of race and colour prejudice and he rarely failed to mention the issue of slavery . |
| 14 | At the end of the process , the 13 houses , once inhabited by 200 families , their numbers swollen to 1,000 people by transients who made their way in and slept on the stairways at night , were reduced to lodging 300 or 400 people in 108 rooms , only a quarter of whom were the original tenants , although the rents apparently had not been raised . |
| 15 | The de Vitto report on the social charter action programme called for the commission to carry out a survey into legislation and practices that discriminated on the grounds of age and to take measures to guarantee equal treatment for elderly people . |
| 16 | It was undone , immediately , by passions once more loosed on the streets of Derry . |
| 17 | The varnish held tiny , solid pieces of silver metal which stayed on the pieces of tissue Philippa was using and scratched the next nail she treated . |