Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 2 | What sent me into a fear-filled frenzy was the news — hidden somewhere between a report on the seasonal suicide rate and an article on bogus Santas — that I had bought a ride-on fire engine for my baby son that had a dangerous fault and should be returned to the manufacturers immediately . |
| 3 | Received opinion , based unduly on the word of sister Elisabeth , has it that Nietzsche began with the idea of a large book on Greek culture which , under Wagner 's influence and again its author 's real inclinations , was gradually whittled down to a book on Greek tragedy — and Wagner . |
| 4 | Does the television studio , in which a group of academics are gathered together for a discussion on an ‘ academic ’ issue , count as an academic setting ? |
| 5 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |
| 6 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 7 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 8 | She 'd booked in to a hotel on the Place Gambetta , had a leisurely bath to iron out the kinks of the journey , then followed the receptionist 's directions to the old part of the town , a maze of narrow streets where old timbered buildings leaned amiably towards each other . |
| 9 | Wycliffe was booked in at a hotel on the waterfront , up river from the wharf and facing the village of Flushing across a narrow stretch of water . |
| 10 | He began to talk again about Stephen handing him the wedding-dress , how he 'd walked away with it and had then sat down on a seat on the promenade , not wanting to go on with his act any more . |
| 11 | We 've still got the Children Act coming through , I know that may appear a bit odd , but that Act was in fact in nineteen eighty nine , but it 's come through in a sense on an incremental basis , and it 's accepted by the Department of Health and er , the S S I , that indeed , and the Audit Commission , that there are elements in the present settlement for the Children Act . |
| 12 | 1971 ) , the original convergence thesis itself has become somewhat modified away from an emphasis on a trend towards uniformity . |
| 13 | Curled up in a ball on the candlewick , she looked about three years old . |
| 14 | He 's come back with a report on the rest of the china and food too . |
| 15 | The transport consultants Oscar Faber TPA will develop work already carried out for a study on short-term measures in the Forth area . |
| 16 | However , if there is a clearly defined project , the related expenditure is clearly identifiable , and if there is a reasonable expectation of sufficient future benefits at least to cover all the costs , development expenditure may be carried forward as an asset on the balance sheet and amortized over the period(s) expected to benefit . |
| 17 | She had either fallen or been pushed on to a spike on the plough ; the level of her blood alcohol gave some credence to the idea that she had fallen . |
| 18 | Shortly after joining No 10 Squadron he was shot down during an attack on the Tirpitz at Aasfjord near Trondheim in Norway . |
| 19 | In 1944 our Lancaster of 57 Sqn , piloted by Flt Lt Bulcraig was shot down on a raid on Revigny , Northern France , killing the pilot , Bomb Aimer Fg Off Robson , Flt Eng Sgt Gale and W/Op Sgt Loughlin . |
| 20 | After a preliminary strategic session in London , fields were divided into four cognate groups and each was visited separately for a day on the basis of a volume of field proposals and a critical review . |
| 21 | The Cessna 310 used by FLYER magazine was written off in an accident on landing in December . |
| 22 | It 's only 3 months since her car was written off in an accident on the A34 in Oxfordshire ; an accident in which she was lucky to escape with her life . |
| 23 | She was wearing a jade green velour ‘ leisure suit ’ and her blonde hair was twisted up in a knot on top of her head . |
| 24 | Britain 's invisible earnings , which are made up of a surplus on things like insurance and banking offset by government contributions to the European Community and overseas aid , are now projected to be about £2,670million in 1989 , less than half the £6,100million total earned in 1988 . |
| 25 | The industrial action must also have had an effect , although senior staff suggested that union activity was not particularly strong , and was felt mainly as a restriction on communication . |
| 26 | This one just hung there like a kite on an invisible string and then fell on its prey like a stone , somewhere in another field . |
| 27 | These elections were presented almost as a referendum on the performance of the government , and in such an atmosphere most councils must have felt confident that , for this year at least , they would avoid any adverse local electoral reaction to their fiscal policies . |
| 28 | The 1980 election , in other words , is to be seen primarily as a referendum on Jimmy Carter 's stewardship during the previous four years . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'd both have got on like a house on fire . |
| 30 | The bricks were laid in alternate courses with stone or concrete , or were used only as a facing on a concrete core . |