Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both parties have invited this court to proceed on the basis that the validity of the appointment is not and can not be disputed or decided on this application . |
| 2 | … if the expert added up his figures wrongly ; or took something into account which he ought not to have taken into account , or conversely : or interpreted the agreement wrongly : or proceeded on some erroneous principle . |
| 3 | It transpired that both had been betrayed by a Russian agent , Hans Geyer , who using the alias ‘ Henry Toll ’ had infiltrated Gehlen 's organisation and passed on all the details of his plans to Moscow . |
| 4 | He could also play a variety of instruments ( and passed on this ability to his children ) and knew songs and melodies which had never been written down — just passed on from ear to ear via generations of Dalesmen . |
| 5 | The huge whorled fingers uncurled and passed on either side of his waist . |
| 6 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 7 | It has successfully developed and operated a port at Sheerness in Kent and drew on this experience in deciding to develop a commercial port in the easternmost portion of the old dockyard . |
| 8 | In earlier phases of a market society some advertising , usually specific or classified , existed in the margins of other cultural institutions , and drew on some general cultural skills . |
| 9 | Beginning with scale-derived thirds and sixths , the first nine examples show some fingerings extracted from the scale of A major and played on all string-sets . |
| 10 | The hair was now centrally parted , and crimped on either side of the face . |
| 11 | The scheme of the Section is that the income which the settlor by his disposition has diverted from himself and conferred on another shall be notionally restored to him while in fact continuing to be applied as he has directed . |
| 12 | In her small workroom on the top floor of a crumbling old warehouse in Whitechapel Theresa Arnold shivered and turned on another bar of her portable gas fire . |
| 13 | He rose from the desk and turned on another light in the room . |
| 14 | He was booted off and landed on some fencing , causing great damage to his testicular region . |
| 15 | Vagrants from these populations may have explored the Southern Ocean and landed on some of the cool temperate islands , but there is no convincing evidence for their reaching Antarctica . |
| 16 | Haggis p15/ The famed dish of Scotland , made from sheep 's intestines and served on many traditional feast days . |
| 17 | Leave is not required and notice of appeal must be filed and served on all parties within four weeks of the date on which the order was made . |
| 18 | Inevitably , containerized , multi-modal shipments require that the goods be unloaded from one mode of conveyance and reloaded on another . |
| 19 | I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman . |
| 20 | The fourth and youngest boy , Bramwell Orams , was in the air force from the age of seventeen and flew on many sorties in the Pacific war zone . |
| 21 | The rampart shook under our weight and the ice all over the bog cracked and broke on both sides . |
| 22 | And that is a terrible terrible thing that we 've all got to face , but I think we have to realize that we have the potential , we have the ability of saving the lives of fifty million children , and the world 's leaders at the conference , at the summit over the weekend , actually turned their minds for an instant , away from all those economic and political problems and focused on this , and I think that that was tremendously important . |
| 23 | It concentrated on the curriculum and organization of Inner London secondary schools and focused on those pupils who were underachieving , took few or no public examinations and showed their dissatisfaction with school by absenting themselves or by behaving in an uncooperative manner ( ILEA 1984 ) . |
| 24 | Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’ |
| 25 | Charlemagne fought and worked on several fronts at any one time ; in the military , political and cultural senses . |
| 26 | When he was looking to expand with another concept , he looked at the labels in his shops for something with a distinctive yet commercial image and decided on this French casualwear label . |
| 27 | He went down to the docks to buy a lorryload of timber going cheaply , had the building sandblasted and refitted , and insisted on some adjustment of the merchandise to suit the customer profile . |
| 28 | For example , when the UK government approved the merger of Britain 's two largest airlines , British Airways and British Caledonian , in 1988 , the EC Commission exercised its power to override national policy and insisted on some tough additional requirements ( e.g. BA giving up some of its routes from Gatwick ) before approving the merger . |
| 29 | The first delivery of post came and went on that fateful day , no letter . |
| 30 | A newcomer was Flight Lieutenant Rawnsley who had attached himself to L Detachment and went on several of their raids . |