Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] on the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yes , course there 's always a car parked on the corner is n't it ? . |
| 32 | There 's always a car parked on the corner |
| 33 | One day , for instance , a female journalist came on the set to interview Brynner who proceeded to make her look pretty stupid in front of everybody on the set . |
| 34 | The first defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the deputy judge had been wrong in law in holding that for the substituted section 9 ( b ) of the Wills Act 1837 to be satisfied the testator had to make his signature after making the dispositive provisions ; and ( 2 ) there was no sufficient evidence upon which the deputy judge could have found that the testator had not been of testamentary capacity at the time he had made and signed the alleged codicil on 18 April 1986 . |
| 35 | By a notice of appeal dated 18 February 1991 the second defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that the judge erred ( 1 ) in concluding that the first defendant was not acting as the plaintiffs ' agent when he procured the signature of the second defendant to the legal charge dated 3 July 1987 ; and ( 2 ) in not finding that the execution of the charge was procured by the undue influence and material misrepresentation of the first defendant and thereby in not setting aside the charge . |
| 36 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 37 | Before long I was promoted to sewing seams , and woe betide me if a stitch showed on the face of the cloth . |
| 38 | She would walk to the kitchen ; the morning light had slid away , and the paler light shone on the old hutch , making the clean china pieces , old pitchers and cups , charming unmatched plates standing on end on the shelves , gleam and reflect . |
| 39 | In the dusk , the street lamps illuminated the long riverside walk , and patches of light danced on the Thames in the clearness of the evening . |
| 40 | Spirals of light danced on the walls of the basement as he started down . |
| 41 | Pamella 's lawyer arrived on the island , and the two met . |
| 42 | ‘ The police and ambulance arrived on the scene very rapidly and the other driver admitted that it was her fault . |
| 43 | Light glimmered on the water through gaps in the heavy foliage . |
| 44 | A patch of dried blood showed on the top where it lay splayed out , and the sight was so pitiful that one of the children began to cry . |
| 45 | She toiled up the stairs , and saw that a light showed on the landing above . |
| 46 | The pig sizzled on the flames , spitting fat , startling the Daurog for a moment . |
| 47 | SPRING sprang on the City yesterday and , in the euphoria of the surprise Tory majority in the General Election , the rains of earlier in the week were forgotten . |
| 48 | A brownish red curtain fabric discovered on the footboard of a bed was originally from Clifton Castle and the pelmet design was taken from a nineteenth-century pattern book . |
| 49 | Sole , however , was critical of the extensive travelling which the itinerary imposed on the Scots , with a four-hour flight between the first and second venues , Darwin and Brisbane , and then the same time on to Hobart … from one extreme to the other in less than a week . |
| 50 | When something in that costly box of tricks above the pool side malfunctioned on the first night at the Grove , they had no option but to call on a back-up team of stopwatch timekeepers . |
| 51 | He was discovered playing on a local works pitch in Glasgow 's Anniesland , when a Partick Thistle and Manchester United scout stumbled on the game after another local match was cancelled . |
| 52 | " A fresh action started on the same grounds as one struck out for failure to obey an " " unless " " order may be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court " ( see Bailey v Bailey [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 1129 at 1133 ) . |
| 53 | Thus , when the first flicker of daylight broke on the horizon at about 02.30 on 1 June , Jellicoe found the sea empty : Scheer had eluded him and was even then reaching sanctuary . |
| 54 | Then the countess started on the family . |
| 55 | The defences on the Danube had been neglected , for as long as the frontier lay on the Dniester the inhabitants of Moesia believed themselves to be secure . |
| 56 | If the wind blew on the edge of her hand there would be trouble . |
| 57 | One soldier lay on the ground like a blazing torch . |
| 58 | She and the soldier lay on the grass ; |
| 59 | On 12 November the programme went on the air . |
| 60 | As we passed the dam , a little snow lay on the shingle plains and the rivers were a mere shadow of their former selves . |