Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb past] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large trees grew from the interstices of the stone and sheep brouzed on the edge of every precipice . |
| 2 | As Cierva visualized , the aircraft sat on the ground whilst the engine drove the rotors at zero pitch to overspeed through a near vertical shaft . |
| 3 | After studying the option , or take-note , Roe replied on the 19th July , from Liverpool , pointing out that only the moderate Royalty and the advanced price of copper ( this was around £80 per ton for metal ) could have reconciled him to such an " unprecedented manner of attaining a Mineral lease . " |
| 4 | Picture to yourself the furore which they will make in the world when people read on the title-page that they have been composed by a seven-year-old child ; and when the sceptics are challenged to test him , as he already has been , imagine the sensation when he asks someone to write down a minuet or some tune or other and then immediately and without touching the clavier writes in the bass and , if it is wanted , the second violin part … every day God performs fresh miracles through this child . |
| 5 | Over 100 people lived on the lot before the fire . |
| 6 | Only five people lived on the island , so I could work alone , and nobody would discover my awful secret . |
| 7 | When the Fens was mainly marshland , people clustered on the small humps or islands of boulder clay which were dry point sites . |
| 8 | 2.3 The current figures of full time staff graded on the GS grades are : = |
| 9 | Jean , 61 , discovered the other life of the man who came home for his supper every night when a debt summons for £6,800 arrived on the day of his funeral . |
| 10 | Er , mind many people , many people relied on the cycle er for to get about you see . |
| 11 | In the 11 weeks up to March 20 , a total of 46 people died on the snow in Austria . |
| 12 | A total of 14 people died on the piste including four casualties of the chairlift accident in Carinthia and four heart attacks . |
| 13 | Three of my people died on the way ’ . |
| 14 | FIVE people died on the roads of North Wales last month , two more than in May last year , Chief Constable David Owen has announced . |
| 15 | Roads toll Five people died on the roads of North Wales last month , two more than in May last year , Chief Constable David Owen has announced . |
| 16 | Now and then people appeared on the banks to wash , squatting on their haunches , leaning forward to scoop up handfuls of water . |
| 17 | Later , around 3,000 people marched on the parliament building , where there were minor scuffles with police . |
| 18 | " You an art student ? " people said on the shopping parade . |
| 19 | The night before the wedding , they went out to all their favourite haunts — 1997 , Rick 's Café , the Go-Down — and ended up at two in the morning getting out of a taxi in Wan Chai , the neon blazing in the hot night , dark-eyed Chinese girls in brightly lit doorways , American sailors talking to them while people slept on the pavements and steaming noodles were served at three dollars a bowl at the poor-man 's lean-to restaurant . |
| 20 | Not a drop of rain fell on Bank Holiday Monday and about 2,200 people travelled on the ACE . |
| 21 | What the people wanted on the fen was what they had already : grazing . |
| 22 | It is as though the bream were connected to sticks with several people stood on the bottom pushing one fish up as they pull another one down . |
| 23 | In front of them stood a microphone on a stand , and then several rows of school chairs filling about a third of the area , though most people sat on the ground . |
| 24 | A few people sat on the floor ( no chairs in the drama studio ) and jumped straight to their feet again as an outbreak of jeering laughter told them that they 'd got it wrong . |
| 25 | It was part of a wider agricultural system with sheep pastured on the rich meadow grass then walked to be folded on fallow arable areas overnight , where their dung helped to maintain fertility on the thin chalkland soils . |
| 26 | As he watched , a mink pounced on the vole and , although the vole dived from the bank for safety at the last minute , the mink had grabbed it almost before it hit the water . |
| 27 | The sheep ran on the fells above Ullswater , as they do today , and on the higher reaches the red deer can still be seen . |
| 28 | Fruit grew on the compound : a few bananas , lemons , mangoes , pawpaw and avocado pears weighing up to a pound and a half . |