Example sentences of "on [noun sg] [coord] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Refreshed , I went up on deck and looked at the waves . |
| 2 | When a BEA Comet blew up in 1967 as the result of an explosive device on board and crashed in the Mediterranean between Rhodes and Cyprus , very little wreckage was recovered from the sea which was about 11 000 feet deep at that point , so the question of salvage did not arise . |
| 3 | ‘ That last man — the one in the Mozart wig without a mask — wanted to show me a restaurant because I 'm mad on cooking and drooled over the recipes he described . ’ |
| 4 | Henry raised himself on tiptoe and pranced across the room . |
| 5 | By larding on the make-up , Jane Pargeter seemed to have regained the charm and sharpness she displayed on television but lacked on the afternoon following the murder . |
| 6 | But the equaliser was always on offer and arrived in the 73rd minute . |
| 7 | Just at that moment , the cats all leapt to their feet with their fur on end and looked in the direction of the door . |
| 8 | Burton has declared that it was when he was performing that scene on the stage that he felt the hairs on his neck stand on end and knew for the first time the power he could have over an audience . |
| 9 | Many public relations people have never spoken on radio or appeared before the TV cameras , because the client usually speaks for himself . |
| 10 | It is carried against , and so I come back to the new erm section being proposed by Professor on anti-semitism and concurred by the convenor , Dr , and put it to the assembly . |
| 11 | The tests show people with symptomless HIV did not benefit in terms of survival or spread of the disease , whether they took the drug immediately on diagnosis or waited for the onset of infection . |
| 12 | Mr Dodd realised his hands were on fire and ran from the garage . |
| 13 | he pointed out that it had been made by a woman who met life unafraid : ‘ Georgia O'Keeffe has had her feet scorched in the laval effusiveness of terrible experience ; she has walked on fire and listened to the hissing vapours round her person … |