Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years all British clubs used 1,000 lb weak links which failed on any two-seater launch where the pilot tried to get the maximum height . |
| 2 | This contrasts with other recent non-representative research on early retirement , carried out by McGoldrick and Cooper ( 1980 ) , which concentrated on those in higher socio-economic groups ( see also S. Wood 1980 ) . |
| 3 | Post-war architects , amongst whom Frederick Gibberd was soon prominent , popularized a style which drew on many influences . |
| 4 | ( Rich 1986 ) In Britain the work of Claire Johnston and Pam Cook on Hollywood films by 1930s and 1940s women directors established an alternative brand of feminist writing on film , introducing criticism which drew on both Marxist theory of ideology ( especially Althusser ) and on French structuralism and semiotics ( Barthes , Levi-Strauss ) . |
| 5 | In France , at the accession of Henry II in 1547 , each of the four secrétaires des finances was given the task of overseeing the administration of a group of French provinces and also of relations with the foreign states which bordered on these ; thus for example the secretary who supervised Burgundy and Champagne was normally also responsible for relations with the Swiss cantons and the states of west Germany . |
| 6 | Nothing was said there which relied on any special characteristic of pain . |
| 7 | Police were today trying to find out what happened during an seven hour ordeal which began on this country road in Oxfordshire . |
| 8 | Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet . |
| 9 | The shock waves of the unexpected Sputnik launches , which broke on both shores of the Atlantic , brought disarmament into coequal partnership with deterrence as a primary aim in Western Defence policy . |
| 10 | On Jan. 15 the Cabinet approved a plan which called on all groups and individuals voluntarily to hand over small-calibre weapons by mid-March . |
| 11 | The president of the House of Deputies of the Congress , Carlos Dupre , on Nov. 28 ordered an official investigation to verify the authenticity of a letter attributed to " various military chiefs " which called on former President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , the C.-in-C. of the Armed Forces , to resign . |
| 12 | Then followed the 4500 , the first ribbing attachment — which worked on some days and not on others ( on the latter I would give up and stop knitting for the day ! ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd been to a party at Cipriani 's in The Strand which went on all hours . |
| 14 | The highlight of the Festival for us was really the International Violin Competition , which went on all day for 4 days ; 28 competitors played three different programmes , the ‘ survivors ’ being whittled down at each stage . |
| 15 | Mr Abbott arrived to brief Mr Branson on the talks , which went on all day at BA 's offices in St James 's Square , central London . |
| 16 | In her child 's understanding it seemed that it was her own liberation that was the cause of the celebration , and the arrival of the princess , the flags which appeared on all the buildings and the succession of functions for which her mother and Denzil put on their beautiful evening clothes and left her with the maid . |
| 17 | They set out up the hillside , going slowly , picking their way from one bush and tussock to another and pausing continually to sniff and stare along the great expanse of grass , which stretched on either side as far as they could see . |
| 18 | The paper dated 15 February 1983 before the works committee which resolved on that date to grant permission , contains a reference to the number of lorries anticipated at the Gillingham Gate daily and under the same heading ‘ Traffic-Safety and Freeflow ’ has a different entry from the one I have referred to . |
| 19 | Everyone stopped where they were and stared as she pointed dramatically at a dark green house plant which stood on some kind of plinth behind the seat she 'd been allocated . |
| 20 | IN A HOUSE WHICH STOOD ON THIS SITE ’ . |
| 21 | He indicated one of the big Chesterfields which stood on either side of the fireplace . |
| 22 | Indeed , the dagger could have come from anywhere : a darkened window , a shadowed door or from the top of any of the low squat buildings which stood on either side of the alleyway . |
| 23 | This reinterpretation sets Keynes ' economics apart from the traditional equilibrium analysis of neo-classical theory which depended on some kind of tâtonnement process ( as described in Chapter 6 ) to ensure that all transactions took place in equilibrium . |
| 24 | She said : ‘ Our initial horror and disbelief at what happened on that day was replaced over time by the realisation that that day heralded the start of the British Government 's Shoot-to-Kill policy in Northern Ireland ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Please tell me what happened on that wild , tragic night ? ’ |
| 26 | I suspected the murderer would strike at us , and what happened on that lake proved it . |
| 27 | None of us knows what happened on that occasion , and it is sad that the participants can not remember , either . |
| 28 | Er the er the breeders ' evening now what happened on this breeders ' evening is that the they run the raffle then give us our expenses out of it so that eleven pound eighty is the is the part of the raffle proceeds which we need to , to e to er for our expenses , you 'll see on the other side erm that we spent that eleven eighty , six eighty for er refreshments and five pound for the rent . |
| 29 | As a matter of fact that is exactly what happened on this planet , and we ourselves are among the most recent , if not the strangest and most wonderful , of those consequences . |
| 30 | Well you say it should open it very quickly , what happened on this occasion ? |