Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B. When trade started , people walked or rode on horseback or in waggons to those villages which were chosen to have weekly markets . |
| 2 | All contributions should be framed or mounted on board and deposited with Jill Morgan at the Rochdale Art Gallery from Saturday 12 October 1991 . |
| 3 | As unification approached many of the 4,250 prisoners in East German prisons rioted or went on rooftop protests or hunger strike in support of demands for a general amnesty on Oct. 3 . |
| 4 | He felt that every time he spoke on the subject or appeared on television , some young person might stop smoking or might be persuaded not to even start . |
| 5 | How many items were there that centred on curriculum content and administration matters and how many focussed on individuals ? |
| 6 | A monologue that centred on hunt balls , riding to hounds , polo and the disgraceful decline of the manners of Guards officers were hardly subjects about which they were often invited to give an opinion . |
| 7 | She came from a family that lived on North Stainmore , where my father was raised , and she had striking looks . |
| 8 | Him that lived on caravan site ? |
| 9 | And she was the first that got on horseback , and with some fifty that were with her , did some hurt to the company of the Cid ; but in fine they slew her , and her people fled to the camp . |
| 10 | And the other one that caught on second was which says something does n't it ? |
| 11 | There was an edge to her voice that bordered on hysteria , and his eyes narrowed . |
| 12 | For a moment that bordered on eternity , Fran stared at the throbbing centre of her hand , then snatched it away and scrambled from the car , uncaring what interpretation he put on her haste . |
| 13 | Even though his period in Calcutta was extremely brief , for he was forced to retire in 1906 after a breakdown , he became celebrated in the West and in India for ‘ preaching ’ the greatness of Indian art with fervour that bordered on fanaticism . |
| 14 | Both Aitken and Stanley Baldwin had an admiration for Law that bordered on veneration . |
| 15 | It proves nothing of the sort , " thought the Magistrate , stroking his cinnamon whiskers with excitement that bordered on ecstasy . |
| 16 | A heartbeat before , he had looked at her with blind passion , then with something that bordered on contempt . |
| 17 | One of many arrests that occurred on Labour Day when police dispersed a peaceful rally in Istanbul , May 1988 . |
| 18 | Yes , his victory at Doral was awesome , but he admits he did it with a suspect putter , wielded by a 49-year-old puttee , and a mind that focussed on golf to block out the loss in a fire of his $2,000,000 Florida mansion . |
| 19 | Like animals that dwelt on land , the terrestrial flora also arose from ancestors that lived in the seas , a change that is known to have happened before the end of the Silurian . |
| 20 | They did this to overturn the Court of Appeal ruling that found on behalf of a Daily Mail journalist and an employee of British . |
| 21 | THE FIREBALL THAT EXPLODED ON GUNPOWDER MOUNTAIN |
| 22 | Two fields that came on stream in 1992 are helping maintain this level of output : Miller ( BP : 40% ) now produces xx barrels of oil a day ( b/d ) and yy million cubic feet of gas a day ( cf/d ) , while Donan ( BP : 100% ) produces yy b/d . |
| 23 | ‘ It was a lad that sneaked on board . |
| 24 | GAZZA was the excuse for an April Fool 's joke that backfired on Radio Nottingham this week . |
| 25 | Next week the feet that danced on canvas will stamp on pedals in the Lombard RAC Rally , but even the loudest engine roar can not drown out the fear that haunts him . |
| 26 | ( In their 1988 survey , Mintel noted that ‘ the proportion of consumer expenditure represented by alcohol consumption has fallen steadily , whilst at the same time that spent on leisure as a whole has increased ’ ( Hunt , p42 ) . ) |
| 27 | The difference between the predicted core peptide M r of 59K and that observed on immunoprecipitation ( 110K ) indicates that many of the 15 potential N- linked glycosylation sites ( Asn-X-Ser/Thr ) are utilized . |
| 28 | Built by the Hunslet Engine Co Ltd Leeds in 1954 , it was the last of 32 similar locomotives that worked on banking and freight duties . |
| 29 | And also last Friday at education committee there was a long debate , both on the procedure which would be adopted by the working party , in discharging it 's remit and in particular the policy which it recommended regarding small schools , and also an extended debate on one of the areas which was a subject of recommendation by the er , district auditor which concerns the organisation of first and middle schooling in the Meer area , and there the working party did look very specifically at the recommendation that was made by the district auditor that decided on balance that that was n't likely to produce the best and most cost effective education in that part of the county . |
| 30 | Youths ‘ pushed car that fell on mother' |