Example sentences of "[vb past] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It focussed on a number of different client groups and 28 projects set out to move about 900 people from hospital settings to community settings . |
| 2 | Very often I dined on a banana split , which was enormous : it consisted of a whole banana , three scoops of ice cream , syrup and whipped cream and only cost 25 cents ; we also lived on delicatessen sandwiches and salads and were so excited with the automats where we put our money in and out popped coffee . |
| 3 | The voice rose on a wave of passion . |
| 4 | Her voice rose on a note of hysteria . |
| 5 | Her voice rose on a note that betrayed how near she was to breaking-point . |
| 6 | I would n't call those highly inventive moves mere dancing ; they bordered on an act that would have had the best strip-tease artists in the country seething with jealousy . |
| 7 | We entered on a course of 312 °T toward a conspicuously tall palm among other palms in an area south of the pier , which is south of the lighthouse , which is south of the ruins . |
| 8 | One is known as ‘ Wacko ’ and the other has the letter F tattooed on a forearm . |
| 9 | She is being kneaded and punched like bread dough by a Valkyrie sporting the corporate logo tattooed on a bicep . |
| 10 | I wandered on a yard or two , pretending to look elsewhere . |
| 11 | Those things do n't sound fearsome — till you see them used on a man 's body . ’ |
| 12 | The requirement that all motor vehicles ( except invalid carriages , police and local authority vehicles ) used on a road must be covered by third party insurance is fundamental to the lawful operation of any haulage business . |
| 13 | If you are the Approver of the package deny approval using option 1.5.3 — Grant / Deny Approval To Package and advise the package manager that module(s) referenced on a DC are not included in the package . |
| 14 | If you are the Approver of the package deny approval using option 1.5.3 — Grant / Deny Approval To Package and advise the package manager that a module(s) referenced on a DC are not included in the package . |
| 15 | This is the first isolation of the Eco K restriction endonuclease from genes cloned on a multicopy plasmid that results in over-production of the enzyme . |
| 16 | Arnold 's fearful preoccupation with the violence of his time drew on a number of sources , for it was not only the ‘ rough ’ of the East End slums who was ‘ asserting his personal liberty a little , going where he likes , assembling where he likes , bawling as he likes , hustling as he likes ’ . |
| 17 | There was that familiar intake of breath as he drew on a cigarette . |
| 18 | Some four months before the publication of the reported work , we produced a report which drew on a questionnaire survey of all police surgeons and sample surveys of investigating and custody officers working in the Metropolitan Police District ; the reported work focused on the custody records of just three stations in London . |
| 19 | M. Grimaud , interested by these strangers , hoping to amuse their English girl , drew on an envelope a sailor-like map demonstrating the approach to the Mas Rose from Vaison and the Mas Cabestainh . |
| 20 | He scribbled on a pad . |
| 21 | Celia scribbled on a postcard . |
| 22 | Ciaran Ryan reported on a case of blatant discrimination in Bank of Ireland , Area West which had recently come to light . |
| 23 | Margaret Spencer reported on a discussion held at a Schools Council Language for Learning Project Conference in 1981 , when teachers were asked the question " Why do we ask children to read to us ? " |
| 24 | At an IOWME ( International Organisation of Women and Mathematics Education ) discussion group in 1986 ( see Isaacson , Rogers and Dekker , 1986 ) , Gila Hanna reported on a gender analysis she and Erika Kuendiger had carried out on data from the Second International Mathematics Study ( SIMS ) . |
| 25 | Constable McLennan reported on a scheme in operation in the public houses in Juniper Green . |
| 26 | Constable McLennan reported on a scheme in operation in the public houses in Juniper Green . |
| 27 | By number three there was a London correspondent who reported on a visit to a dog show ( Crufts ) held in the Agricultural Hall , and in number six short articles in the Gaelic about animals . |
| 28 | By number three there was a London correspondent who reported on a visit to a dog show ( Crufts ) held in the Agricultural Hall , and in number six short articles in the Gaelic about animals . |
| 29 | Under other legislation , less formal committees may be set up to enquire into trade disputes , and in the 1960s Lord Devlin produced three reports on the port industry and Lord Cameron reported on a dispute concerning bank employees . |
| 30 | RP reported on a meeting chaired by H Sluiman . |