Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other bloke was being sat on by three other passengers , including the little old lady in the straw hat , while Preston hopped around moaning and clutching his wrist , but he did not tell Polly this . |
| 2 | Although the average working week was still forty-eight hours , most men at that time had been reared when toil used to start at six o'clock in the morning and carried on until eight each evening . |
| 3 | Generalizing a little , we might plot the stress trajectories , that is the direction in which the stress is handed on from one atomic bond to the next , very much as in Figure 2 of this chapter . |
| 4 | This is not the place to outline these in detail but , to put it simply , in the late 1970s the record industry faced a ‘ crisis ’ ( a stagnation in record sales after twenty years of expansion ) brought on by two simultaneous developments : on the one hand , an economic recession which hit particularly hard the most important sector of the record buying market , working-class youth ; on the other hand , technological developments in the leisure industry which meant either new sorts of competition for people 's leisure resources ( home computers and video recorders become as significant in young people 's lives as record players , for instance ) or disrupted record companies ' profit-making routines ( home taping thus became the industry 's chief bogey ) . |
| 5 | 1 banana sliced on to 1/2 deseeded honeydew melon , plus a diet yogurt OR 1 slice of wholemeal toast with 2 teaspoons marmalade or honey and a small banana |
| 6 | A MAN was sexually assaulted yesterday when he was pounced on by two male attackers . |
| 7 | Today 's new generation of black directors has been spurred on by two particular success stories . |
| 8 | She said that , ah , because they 've put on minus three thousand pound wha , a loan that she had . |