Example sentences of "[vb past] on [prep] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I do not possess , however , is any suitable travelling clothes — that is to say , clothes in which I might be seen driving the car — unless I were to don the suit passed on by the young Lord Chalmers during the war , which despite being clearly too small for me , might be considered ideal in terms of tone . |
| 2 | Finally , in the week that the flame of altruism flickered on as the saintly Mother Teresa and her divine holiness the Princess of Wales clasped hands in a gesture of tender solidarity that touched the souls of millions , it was revealed that : |
| 3 | From Ireland he moved on to the Outer Hebrides , which he reached on 30 August , and then to his most northerly landfall , Foula off the Shetlands , on 3 September . |
| 4 | The 29-year-old Scot , a £225,000 summer capture from Millwall , has struggled to find his form on Wearside but all that changed when he came on for the injured Don Goodman after just 12 minutes of Saturday 's game against Barnsley . |
| 5 | But as the pony trotted on under the cloud-filled November sky the voice that soon stole into Abie Klugman 's mind was not from his past or his future , but from his present . |
| 6 | Looking round at the elegant dining room , waited on by the unobtrusive Friedrich , Peter Müller wondered what it would be like to live on such a scale , with so much money to make life as smooth as silk . |
| 7 | United 's best chance of the half came just a minute later ; Martin Foyle ran on to the perfect Paul Simpson through ball , he actually got past goal keeper Andy Gosney but he was forced just a little bit wide . |