Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One participant has to describe a route traced out on the map so that both speaker and listener follow the identical route . |
| 2 | My tranquillity was rudely interrupted as a wave crashed down on the rocks and sent a shower of spray over us as we huddled amongst the rocks on the headland . |
| 3 | The Battle of Britain was fought over their heads ; there were dog-fights in the Sussex summer skies , a Messerschmitt shot down on the peaceful Downs . |
| 4 | He saluted a little man in tight trousers and a yachting cap , standing by a boat pulled up on the bank . |
| 5 | A riot broke out on the evening of Aug. 10-11 in the southern city of Shenzhen involving 50,000-60,000 would-be investors who were protesting against unfair distribution of share application forms , which had been sold out earlier than expected . |
| 6 | He handed her a plate of freshly baked ensaimadas from a tray set out on a white linen cloth . |
| 7 | A car swished by on the main road . |
| 8 | A car flashed by on the other side of the road . |
| 9 | Ricky and Alejandro had to be dragged away from the horses to a lunch laid out on a blue-and-white checked tablecloth under the gum trees . |
| 10 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |
| 11 | He turned and charged quickly off into the forest to rescue his friend , only to find a German splayed out on the ground and Tommy still running on up the hill . |
| 12 | Sweetheart was sitting in her favourite chair with her legs crossed at the knee and a magazine spread out on the table before her . |
| 13 | And then , at four-thirty when she was just contemplating going off shift , a call came in on the red phone that made her feel cold inside . |
| 14 | By then he was standing behind the blackout blanket in his room , a comic spread out on the window-ledge where remnants of fading sunshine fell in brassy yellow stains . |
| 15 | At precisely 11.07 ( Earth time ) , a message flashed up on the ITN screen : ‘ Con hold Torbay . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And he dreamed , and behold a ladder set up on the earth , and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it . ’ |
| 17 | She sharply told Tilda , who had planted herself in a rocking-chair put out on the pavement , that she must come into the shop and help her speak to the man . |
| 18 | There was movement in the cage from where the old female 's voice came and a shadow came out on the floor of her cage , thin and gaunt , the silhouette of an eagle . |
| 19 | DURING my time in Germany ( 1984-88 ) the British Ambassadors in Bonn and East Berlin would twice a year set off on an official tour , once in his territory and once in mine , to gather impressions about the relationship between the two parts of the divided German nation and how it might develop . |
| 20 | Most evenings at Fontainebleau were , however , marked by innocent pastimes ; charades or parlour games with occasional improvised dancing to a tune picked out on a piano . |
| 21 | A fire broke out on the defendants ' premises and spread to those of the plaintiff . |
| 22 | I 've seen a chap turned out on the road last Friday . |
| 23 | The biggest excitement of the war for us happened when an aeroplane came down on the hill above Clove Lodge , which is just across the valley from Low Birk Hatt . |
| 24 | 16 and 17 , that an activity carried out on a permanent basis or , in any event , without a foreseeable limit to its duration , does not fall within the Commmunity provisions concerning the provision of services , but falls within the scope of articles 48 to 51 or articles 52 to 58 of the E.E.C . |