Example sentences of "[vb past] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ball shot forth , bounced on the frosty road and rolled sadly on to the grass verge . |
| 2 | Rain and hail bounced on the tiled roof with such venom that Tom and Willie were quite deafened . |
| 3 | To crown this important exhibition of French sculpture , Bellanger has come up with something quite exceptional : Clodion 's ‘ Sacrifice à l'amour ’ , originally shown at the 1773 Salon , which only recently surfaced on the international market and has been brought back to France for this occasion . |
| 4 | Peony looked suitably chastened , but there was a glint in her eye that told Peggy there was plenty more she could say , and would say , if it were n't for the fact that she adored the Vicar with a passion that bordered on the obsessive . |
| 5 | SCOTLAND 's preparations for the crucial World Cup qualifying tie against Malta at Ibrox on Wednesday bordered on the farcical yesterday when Rangers ' Richard Gough and Stuart McCall were forced to withdraw from Andy Roxburgh 's squad and Ally McCoist was given less than a 50-50 chance of playing . |
| 6 | ‘ Contemporary writers , ’ she said , as if they bordered on the unmentionable . |
| 7 | She knelt on the greasy bed , feeling like something out of the Arabian Nights , and laughed when he pushed her backwards into the pool of oil . |
| 8 | All was going well until I knelt on the front overlap . |
| 9 | ‘ Really and truly , ’ Laura told them both firmly , heedless of her smart dress and shoes as she knelt on the damp sand , her arms placed warmly about their two anxious figures . |
| 10 | She knelt on the cold stone floor and carefully placed some coals on the dying embers in the grate . |
| 11 | She did n't know how long she knelt on the cold floor with her mother still and silent in her arms . |
| 12 | Then David looked up and , as though the desperate misery in his eyes had called out to her , Julia went and knelt on the hard , icy floor at his feet , reaching up with both hands . |
| 13 | ( Before I went to work in the morning I would take a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush and deal with the black-and-white chequered marble shop doorstep — in my memory it is a glittering affair , although cold on frosty mornings — because at that time of the day the rising sun often shone full down the High Street where we lived and on me , as I knelt on the cobbled pavement plying my scrubbing-brush . ) |
| 14 | I knelt on the wooden floor in the East Yorkshire winter praying , " Dear God if you exist let me be warmed . " |
| 15 | She knelt on the tufted rebellious grass and closed her eyes . |
| 16 | I knelt on the top step and poked my head through , near the bottom of the gap … |
| 17 | The campaign of the Conservative candidate , Richard Hickmet , was criticized for the way in which it dwelt on the controversial claim that it would be a " moral victory for terrorism " if the seat were to change hands as a result of the killing of Gow . |
| 18 | In Rome these stressed the emperor 's achievements ( military victories , public works , etc. ) , his virtues and divine endorsement of his regime ; in the provinces they dwelt on the important cults or monuments of the city which made them . |
| 19 | Instead , amid a trenchant attack on the Government 's record , he dwelt on the vital role of trade unions in the fight to restore workers ' rights . |
| 20 | The vessel can be transferred when the portcullis gate on the tank ( the one at the opposite end to the one used on the upper transfer ) has been lifted . |
| 21 | The latter approach is the one used on the Modular Course . |
| 22 | Not the one we took off ya , the one ya used on the big guy ? ’ |
| 23 | David Hall exhibited at MOMA an elegant piece which drew on the lost potentialities of the Nipkow disc , mechanical heart of the early Baird Televisor , ‘ superseded ’ and eradicated by a progress which has been synonymous with standardization . |
| 24 | Sanchez cocked his head — a parody of listening ; he drew on the joint and held his breath . |
| 25 | In their campaign to rupture parliamentary discretion and medical hegemony , the women and men of the repeal movement drew on the only vocabulary able to bear the moral and intellectual weight of their challenge . |
| 26 | To begin with Quakerism , Friends taking the initiative against the slave trade in the 1780s drew on the colonial American Quakers Benezet and Woolman . |
| 27 | However , the eventual transference from the classical curriculum to a modern alternative , and the enhancement of English and Englishness which was one of its major products , drew on the raw materials provided by the scholarly work of the middle decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | To put it very generally , from the mid-1950s ( the rock 'n' roll moment ) to the end of the 1960s the dominant sensibility in pop was a rock sensibility which had , at its cutting edge , an account of itself which drew on the Marxist critique of mass culture . |
| 29 | Hailed as a modern masterpiece , it drew on the basic elements of nineteenth-century picturesque — towers , pavilions , arches , and vaults — but gave them a distinct Scandinavian feel and line , the spirit of the sagas , as embodied in the gigantic statues at the entrance . |
| 30 | But there was always a second non-evangelical element in his political support which drew on the independent unionist populist tradition . |