Example sentences of "on [art] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The angle of the lamp cord on the bar made me think I saw a hearing-aid cable extending from Fielding 's ear . |
| 2 | Sometimes she sat on the end of his divan if she could n't sleep and tried to wake him up to talk , but he slept with the heaviness of the very thin , and her weight on the divan made it sag and creak in a way that embarrassed her . |
| 3 | At the end of the summer , a beautiful girl passed , and she saw the tall weed , and plucked it and put it in her dress , where it blushed a glorious red and died content ; the weed on the bank saw it die , and laughed , and reflected that it would live till the next year . |
| 4 | Only when Marcella had relaxed sufficiently to sit back in her chair and release her tight hold on the dog did he risk intervention : ‘ We came to talk about the Garlands . ’ |
| 5 | The train from Sao Paulo to the Bolivian border had been clean and comfortable , and the town of Coromba on the Pantanal made you regret you were not a train robber on the run in search of a safe haven . |
| 6 | But the polish on the sockets made them look like new . |
| 7 | The wine 's sharp sting on the grazes made her wince . |
| 8 | Was this on a Saturday did you say ? |