Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Devlin expanded on this in the lorry accident case in 1969 : |
| 2 | Physiologists capitalized on this instrumentation to demonstrate that the electrical activity of the brain and its nerve cells was a function of what the individual was doing , or not doing , or how sensory receptors were stimulated . |
| 3 | At various times Keynes operated on all three levels , and moved easily from one to another . |
| 4 | You 've noticed that Healthmaster does not have erm , just smoker , non-smoker rates , because if we actually just simply mention dwelled on that perhaps we should 've little bit longer . |
| 5 | Their voices rose on this note from the kitchen to saturate the bedroom above where on summer evenings you lay rigid with wakefulness . |
| 6 | Dot woke on that morning that could have been the last morning of her life and knew by the brightness reflected across the ceiling that she was safe , for the roads would still be blocked . |
| 7 | Real fear came on those who thought they were abandoned . |
| 8 | I shared command of the big " V " with two other skippers , Doug Thompson and Denis Mawe , as H.Q. frowned on any policy that kept an officer away from his home port and normal customs duties for too long a period . |
| 9 | It was inevitable that Washington should be considering future reductions in KMAG and Roberts commented on this . |
| 10 | Inspired by this success , Sylvestra embarked on more which grew into an exhibition ‘ including one commissioned by Julian Glover of him and his dresser — a colourful character known as Black Mac , and one of David Bradley talking to himself as Justice Shallow in Henry IV Part 2 . |
| 11 | In the 1960s , an astronomer named Gerald Hawkins worked on another idea . |
| 12 | After the initial euphoria of the war ending , the Club started on another six years of intense struggle for survival , despite investment . |
| 13 | Neil broke on that , and on Sally-Anne 's cry . |
| 14 | Bernice munched on another fibreburger , wiping away the unpleasantly spicy taste with more of the pink drink . |
| 15 | Prime was brought down when to escape a hostile bid from MAI Systems Corp , it agreed to one of the last — and most doomed — leveraged buyouts in the computer industry by a group led by J H Whitney & Co , just before the boom fell on such transactions , which saddled Prime with a debt burden that at the time looked unsustainable — as so it has proved . |
| 16 | It maintained high standards in the past since George and Marie insisted on these and were able to work together to achieve them . |
| 17 | The mulch went on this year in March ( together with the Growmore , as ever ) , and only the keenest weeds have managed to struggle through . |
| 18 | The trumpets blew on both sides . |
| 19 | Like his predecessors , Philip VI used the obligations of liege homage , and the threat of confiscation of the duchy if Edward defaulted on these obligations , as a means of putting pressure on the English king when his policies appeared to threaten French interests . |
| 20 | A long , thin brunette sat on another bean-bag very close to her , staring down at a focus somewhere near the edge of the blonde 's left thigh . |
| 21 | But eight years before Roberts sat on that hilltop above the city , there were only 24,000 Jews living in Palestine . |
| 22 | The idea was they were after the records which the college held on all students . |
| 23 | Cecil 's colt 's success at the highest level came on this very course in last season 's Racing Post Trophy . |
| 24 | Only two wore helmets ; metal armour gleamed on some ; mail coats rattled ; for the most part they wore an odd , ungainly mix of leathers , mail and furs . |
| 25 | ‘ So the folk of the village capitalized on this gift from the gods , that had come to them in their darkest hour . |
| 26 | Lt Col W Yolland reported on this request to the Board of Trade , for which he was an Inspector of Railways , on 25th December 1865 . |
| 27 | A female landowner of substance induced a handsome peasant to live with her in her mansion ; the estate was cunningly converted into a collective farm , but the local peasantry frowned on this breakdown of the old class barriers . |
| 28 | The whole village relied on that |
| 29 | Between the gate and the decorated central room where the wedding ceremony would take place a ritually clean white cloth had been laid on the ground and the visitors walked on this once they were past the gate . |
| 30 | With the re-establishment of stable kingship in Kent and among the West Saxons under Wihtred and Ine respectively and the confinement of Mercian power , a period of relatively peaceful consolidation followed which lasted for a quarter of a century during which time kings in southern England embarked on that redefinition of their realms which is embodied in the extant laws of Wihtred and Ine . |