Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contrast was stark : the English system was founded on a social interaction , with knowledge as the vehicle of communication ; the German system was founded on a personal interaction with knowledge , and any human interaction rode on the back of that experience . |
| 2 | Off I go ; just an old sack chucked on the horse 's back , no saddle or anything . |
| 3 | Without warning , 602 and the Edinburgh Squadron pounced on the Germans , screaming down out of the sun and spraying the marauders with concentrated machine gun fire . |
| 4 | The hair rose on the back of the boy 's neck . |
| 5 | An aircraft with nine people on board crashed on the Pacific island of Espiritu Santo , Vanuatu , on July 29 , killing all passengers . |
| 6 | When the ombudsman reported on the case he said : ‘ I can not recall ever having encountered such a manifest and deplorable lack of regard by management for the welfare of a hospital inpatient . ’ |
| 7 | Other factors beside the suspended sentence bore on the size of the prison population in the early 1970s , and the trends were not encouraging . |
| 8 | The division occurred on the day of a vital meeting of the 140 members of the Janata Dal parliamentary party . |
| 9 | An inviting smell of liquor rose on the steam . |
| 10 | Thus the research impacted on the team in several important and positive ways . |
| 11 | A hand raised in the darkened doorway of a room ; light gleamed on the smooth metal barrel of a gun . |
| 12 | Light gleamed on the china cats ' gilt whiskers and between them , in the empty space that was no longer vacant , sat Griselda . |
| 13 | The rock towered on the horizon where the posts had been . |
| 14 | First , the transporter bringing his race car crashed on the autostrada and two of his mechanics were injured . |
| 15 | ALNWICK : Three members of the same family were badly hurt when their car crashed on the busy Peppermoor crossroads . |
| 16 | ALNWICK : Three members of the same family were badly hurt when their car crashed on the busy Peppermoor crossroads . |
| 17 | The review prevaricated on the issue of the CAB 's obligation to provide specialist services to clients . |
| 18 | And he gives the game away by specifying that the ritual occurred on the day immediately preceding Jesus 's triumphal entry into Jerusalem . |
| 19 | Violence erupted on the pitch in the second-half of the quarter-final first leg and fans hurled missiles on to the pitch . |
| 20 | I do not believe , for example , that it was a matter of chance that the Strangeways riot erupted on the day following the Trafalgar Square demonstration against the poll tax . |
| 21 | The prosecution showed the jury at Preston Crown Court several bags of stones , bricks and masonry found on the railway embankment where James 's body was discovered . |
| 22 | Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs . |
| 23 | Those who were not , but rose by exceptional ability , were invariably the subject of unfavourable comment , and when successful ( as in the case of Archbishop Willigis of Mainz , 975–1011 ) , it was because their rule drew on the capital of the Adelsheiliger tradition . |
| 24 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 25 | The allegation came on the third day of an insurance fraud trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court . |
| 26 | A driver was hurt when his car overturned on the Stokesley to Easby road . |
| 27 | As the players trooped off , the home side seemed on the verge of safety , and England 's hopes of capturing seven wickets in the final session seemed , at best , remote , given their success rate of just two in the first two sessions of play . |
| 28 | The Bush broadside came on the last day of the Republicans ' convention in Houston , Texas . |
| 29 | The morning sky was blue as yet but storm clouds were gathering and the wind seemed on the change . |
| 30 | When I was fifteen I was sitting at home and my dad was crashed out in the chair , my dad 's a Fords worker , and the Miss World beauty contest came on the television and I just felt really overwhelmed by this vision . |