Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summers I rode for hours on a white pedal car with a hooter and real spark plugs . |
| 2 | Harvey asked between bites on the doughnut . |
| 3 | Thank you Chairman , last environment committee er , you asked for updates on the position of the service , these are the last years I have managed to inspect the reports the service . |
| 4 | YOU asked for comments on the new proposals for points scoring . |
| 5 | Women orbited about surfers on the beach ; they clung to them in cars ; they occupied their houses in loose liaisons . |
| 6 | As Mr Major posed for photographers on the steps of 10 Downing Street yesterday with Rebecca Stephens , he spotted a party of schoolchildren . |
| 7 | More than 50 children rooted for rocks and ferreted for fossils on Saturday . |
| 8 | In nine cases a subject described a situation which was not at one of the 40 junctions of interest , these were either descriptions of junctions on the practice route or events which occurred between junctions on the route , these were not coded . |
| 9 | Out of school , he read poetry and drew with chalks on the pavements of the East End . |
| 10 | Fifty years ago eleven wartime scientists and servicemen died when their plane crashed in flames on the Gloucestershire-Herefordshire border . |
| 11 | The economies made on collective consumption and their effects on the family ranged from cutbacks on savings , which had little immediate impact but rocked their sense of security , to cutbacks on essentials like food , which signalled hard-hitting poverty . |
| 12 | BRIG JACK WINCHESTER , who has died aged 80 , had an active military career , which ranged from battles on the North West Frontier and campaigns in the Middle East to Arnhem in 1944 , when he won a Military Cross . |
| 13 | The waters of the river were broken and scintillating , splashing in bright sparks where it bounded over rocks on its way to the town . |
| 14 | We monitored them for a period of about twelve months before we reported to members on the outcome . |
| 15 | It was not a cart-track but one used by men on foot only , perhaps by single horsemen , and it ran along the bank of the stream before turning and crossing by the log , then it seemed to wander off , more or less straight into the forest . |
| 16 | Jack 's agent was already well ensconced at a table with half a dozen people , a couple of whom I recognised as regulars on the pro-am circuit . |
| 17 | Until the beginning of NEP they constituted a disparate group of individuals to whom the party appealed for letters on local affairs , but in 1922 they acquired their official title and were subject to much more pressure from the centre . |
| 18 | The 25-year-old , who played against Rangers on Wednesday , said : ‘ I know Eric is very popular and I would like to achieve what he has done . ’ |
| 19 | Now she could see red houses , swimming-pools , race tracks , skyscrapers sticking up like teeth , and roads and railways so uniformly crisscross they seemed like tiles on a vast kitchen floor . |
| 20 | The low lands were patched with hayfields at every stage of readiness , from bleached yellow to ferny green , and across the coloured surfaces people moved as though they were stitching and knitting at its texture , arms pulling on rakes , backs stooped under burdens on their way to the steadings . |
| 21 | In addition intelligence figures showed that four people had been killed and 169 injured in attacks on foreigners by neo-Nazis and other right-wing elements in the first eight months of 1991 . |
| 22 | Opposing pressures came from tutors on the one hand , and family , male peers , and non-university female friends on the other . |
| 23 | The King 's announcement came amidst reports on April 15 that 43 intellectuals and businessmen had published an open letter calling on the King to establish national and municipal councils and to curb the activities of the Islamic religious police , the mutaween . |
| 24 | I would go back to my attic and not be too hard on my characters if they came to pieces on their knees . |
| 25 | A community bureau on a council estate will be favoured by some but rejected by others on the grounds of lack of anonymity . |
| 26 | Kilns were established to manufacture the bricks used to line the tunnel ( approximately one million were made ) , and the clay used came by barges on the nearby Nene . |
| 27 | EXOTIC : The richly-adorned guest house in which the Mellor family lived like lords on their fantasy isle |
| 28 | Elizabeth toiled for hours on end and her children remember her machine going non-stop . |
| 29 | A central corridor opened onto bedrooms on one side , and on the other side there was a sitting room with a piano and a dining room with solid antique furniture and an oil painting of the owner . |
| 30 | On Jan. 10 the body of Meneses , who had headed the " self-defence " groups of the Magdalena Medio region , was found riddled with bullets on the outskirts of Puerto Bocayá [ for December surrender of Otero 's paramilitaries to government see p. 38673 ] . |