Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other couples wandered in their wake , or else lingered on the hilltop by the Commemorative stone , happier in their partners . |
| 2 | Transitions between orbitals that are largely or completely localized on a metal center are usually described as d-d ( or , for elements with partly filled f sub-shells , f-f ) transitions . |
| 3 | She ignored the dark anger that suddenly showed on his face , and went on , ‘ If this is your house , then whoever sent that poison pen letter must know about it . |
| 4 | The subject tends to intimidate many farmers and yet it was in some ways a natural extension of the record keeping and budgeting that already existed on most farms at present . |
| 5 | Almost any small feature in a building or even a field wall may say something of the structures that once stood on such sites . |
| 6 | That endurance was not a quality that induced ready sympathy from a class that still looked on the constable as a kind of public flunkey . |
| 7 | Taking it out , she ripped it into tiny pieces then tossed the fragments into the bucket that still stood on the dresser like some awful avant-garde ornament . |
| 8 | Allosaurus was assumed from its long hind legs to be a kangaroo-type reptile that actually bounced on its prey . |
| 9 | Now U have to confess that there were two that never went on sale . |
| 10 | Under the previous law the hooker was striking against no-one on his own ball and rarely competed on his opponents ball for he was involved in the eight man drive . |
| 11 | There was another face then , which did n't have to be invented : a moustached face that had recently and endlessly appeared on the television news , the face of a man who was accused of battering to death the nanny of his children , of attempting to do the same to his wife . |
| 12 | She had deliberately not revealed what she was looking for , and so insisted on evacuating every office before she began work . |
| 13 | Thomas Jackson may have found that his own baptism had not been recorded and so insisted on having it written in the margin twenty-two years later . |
| 14 | Jimmy Marks had become the Commander of No 35 Squadron and so arrived on the day that the Pathfinders were formed with his hind-picked aircrews from No 1 Group . |
| 15 | [ 'Kinship defenders ' ] also feel that insufficient work is carried out by social workers on the rehabilitation of separated families , while at least some of the ‘ society-as-parent ’ school seem more aware of situations where rehabilitation is attempted inappropriately , and perhaps foisted on an unwilling parent , and feel that social workers should be discouraged from holding out unrealistic hopes of restoring the child . |
| 16 | There were thousands of the creatures flying above them and ominously silhouetted on the witch trees at the edge of the plain . |
| 17 | Curzon was wont to complain , and with justice , that Chamberiain ‘ forgot all about India when he launched his scheme ’ , and whimsically mused on ‘ what would have become of him and us if he had ever visited India … |
| 18 | Discussions at the meeting of the Council of Internal Market Ministers held on 18 June failed to result in any agreement on the long outstanding European Company Statute , first proposed in 1970 and long deadlocked on the issue of employee participation . |
| 19 | Now , if she were seated in her old place , wedged between the window and Penini , with his mother opposite encircled in her husband 's arms , or , if the men rode alongside or travelled on the outside of the carriage , sitting with her mistress while Pen and Flush lay on the other seat — now she would feel stifled , trapped , longing to get out . |
| 20 | ‘ He drank some water and just collapsed on me . |
| 21 | French engineers , facing similar difficulties of a wartime investment backlog ( but , significantly , steel prices which reflected real shortages ) , based more of their immediate postwar programme on sets of 100MW and above , and soon standardised on 125MW sets ( the first of which , with re-heat , was commissioned in 1955 , three years before the BEA 's first 120MW re-heat set ) . |
| 22 | He fumbled for and finally pounced on the right word , ‘ Of torihada in my legs . ’ |
| 23 | Back with the dancers , Humphreys peeled off all his clothes , started playing with himself and finally urinated on the dance-floor . |
| 24 | He staggered and fell the last few feet and finally collapsed on the mud and grass of the bank . |
| 25 | An abandoned salt mine near Carrickfergus , Northern Ireland , showed signs of activity in September and early October 1990 , and finally collapsed on 19 October , causing a depression 200 metres in diameter and 7 metres deep [ see photograph on page 19 ] . |
| 26 | I put one foot on his shoulder and as I climbed up , making room for him , he raised himself and finally stood on the platform , helping me as far as possible . |
| 27 | Max has been to numerous rehearsals with his celebrity owner and once appeared on breakfast TV . |
| 28 | To this end , he often smoked his pipe during the game and always insisted on playing in his slippers . |
| 29 | THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS ONE OF BERNARD 'S FAVOURITES AND ALWAYS SAT ON HIS DESK . |
| 30 | I advised the Camerons to ensure that both dogs always moved towards them to receive any affection , and preferably sat on command before receiving it . |