Example sentences of "[vb past] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , she went and got the Deputy Head and she was a bit upset about it , and then after that our biology group was chopped right down , more or less cut in half , and most of the boys went somewhere else to do their biology while the rest of us stayed with that teacher and we got on a lot better then , you know . |
| 2 | One night I stopped on a bit at the dance in Cotherstone and had to walk home because I could n't get a lift from anyone . |
| 3 | An old sword hung on a wall of his house as an ornament . |
| 4 | You can work with any size of mirror , from minute to enormous , and it can be free-standing to sit on top of a dressing table or hung on a wall , as shown in the photograph on the opposite page . |
| 5 | Holly , ivy , mistletoe , real flowers and gilded artificial or dried sprays all look lovely hung on a wall or suspended from ceilings or in windows . |
| 6 | A 1980 calendar hung on a wall ; she had kept it because she liked the picture : Manet 's " The Bar at the Folies-Bergère " She identified with that girl who stared out , trapped by bottles , tangerines , mirrors , the counter , a wall of people with ugly faces . |
| 7 | She meant it was n't any good just talking , sitting there beneath a cross that hung on a wall . |
| 8 | Alternatively , buy folding chairs that could either be put away in , say , a hall cupboard and taken out when needed , or hung on a wall . |
| 9 | The Strap was a thick leather belt , about 3 inches wide , which hung on a hook . |
| 10 | Over the sink at the other end there was a shelf with cups , saucers , and plates ; a saucepan hung on a hook and there was a kettle on the oil stove . |
| 11 | Athelstan saw the pearl pendant which hung on a gold chain from one ear lobe . |
| 12 | Most of the remaining paintwork was covered in CND symbols , as were most of the T-shirts , jeans , smock tops and even a couple of nappies which hung on a clothes line stretched between the bus and the fence . |
| 13 | The cupboard was just deep enough to hold him sitting cross-legged , his head concealed in the pinstriped folds of Francie 's second-best suit , which hung on a hanger . |
| 14 | Some of them were spattered with blood from the carcasses that hung on a row of meat-hooks nearby . |
| 15 | she said who , I said Joy , she said oh blimey is she , I said yeah , so he hung on a bit but he 'd |
| 16 | Inanna 's request for water was denied and her sister , inflamed with jealousy , had her turned into a corpse and hung on a stake . |
| 17 | It so happened that the string hung on a sprig of an elder that grew out of the mote , and this confirmed them that ‘ t was the Devill . |
| 18 | Her place hung on a thread . |
| 19 | The camera swung again , but this time George looked above it , to a monitor screen hung on a metal rafter above the audience , to see his own face in close-up , the eyes staring upward in a way that gave him an absurdly soulful look . |
| 20 | ‘ Activity' seems to be one car — all I see as I meander my way through the hills above the lonely hamlet of Núpur. beyond it is the biggest fish-drying frame I have so far seen , with overflow fish hung on a wire fence alongside . |
| 21 | He was acutely conscious of the fact that his life hung on a twitch of his captor 's trigger finger . |
| 22 | He was a tall , thin man of indeterminate age with hairless grey skin and dressed in a long black robe without ornament save for a small silver fork with twisted tines which hung on a piece of string round his neck , and rested on the black breast of the robe . |
| 23 | A cooking pot hung on a tripod though the logs beneath were now blackened cinders . |
| 24 | She rose to her feet , reaching for the white coat that hung on a peg behind the door . |
| 25 | Rising to his feet , he stretched , as sleek and graceful as one of his own cats , and switched on a couple of standard lamps . |
| 26 | She switched on a desk lamp , and quickly scanned what she had just written , murmuring to herself . |
| 27 | All she got for her pains was a slight smile but no verbal reply as with efficient ease he filled and switched on a percolator . |
| 28 | It so happened that the Gulf War in Kuwait was filling our attention , and so I switched on a video tape whenever something attracted me and I found that I would be most likely to record the daily sessions on the BBC 's Newsnight with Peter Snow discussing the disposition of troops over the battle zone using a visual aid which is now known as the sandpit . |
| 29 | Later , in the mid-70s , while on holiday in the Caribbean , he switched on a lamp that had frayed wiring and he received a terrific shock . |
| 30 | She turned and switched on a lamp . |