Example sentences of "[vb past] on [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Becaus I mean , the the one I 've got here , the one I 've got , erm , er that I taped on Saturday night , there 's seven people on it , and they all keep cutting across each other on it , it would just be impossible . |
| 2 | Three charged on kidnap bid |
| 3 | They drew on government legislation , park plans , guidance from statutory bodies , such as the Countryside Council for Wales , and common sense in presenting their opposing cases to the full conference on the last day for a decision . |
| 4 | We also drew on survey evidence to show that temporary work provided an important source of new jobs for unemployed people , of whom perhaps a quarter took such work . |
| 5 | Starzl et al reported on liver transplantation in 52 adult patients with HBV infection in whom the 24 month survival was 50% compared with 76% in 744 adult liver recipients with non-malignant disease . |
| 6 | CW reported on maintenance contract re-negotiation . |
| 7 | Most recently , in 1985 , Mr Justice Popplewell reported on crowd safety and control at sports grounds , following the Bradford fire ; in 1988 , Lord Justice Butler-Sloss on suspected child abuse cases in Cleveland ; in 1988 Mr Justice Barry Sheen on the sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise ; in 1988 , Lord Cullen on the Piper Alpha oil rig explosion ; in 1989 , Lord Justice Taylor on the Hillsborough stadium disaster . |
| 8 | Know what I caught on Wednesday night do you ? ! |
| 9 | Trouble erupted on Friday night after a row about a prisoner 's appeal for compassionate leave . |
| 10 | Grey ash dripped on cream sand . |
| 11 | A BRITON was behind bars in Florida yesterday after allegedly admitting that he preyed on women estate agents in a trail of crime across the USA . |
| 12 | I mean they done that in our factory they stopped on Saturday morning . |
| 13 | The club 's record signing is still trying to recover from a stomach muscle injury and coach Fox said yesterday : ‘ He trained on Thursday night but he is not ready yet . ’ |
| 14 | CRYSTAL PALACE face a battle with the FA over their intention to claim compensation for the injury John Salako sustained on England duty last month . |
| 15 | The programme represented a departure from previous campaigns in that it concentrated on building belief in the ability to make decisions for oneself , and it used social cognitive theory techniques to ‘ inoculate ’ children against chronic self-doubt or learned helplessness . |
| 16 | During the 1920s the milking potential was encouraged , to the detriment of the beef , but in the 1950s the efforts of the breed society ( formed in 1891 ) concentrated on beef conformation and the dual-purpose image was discarded when the South Devon was classified as a beef breed in 1972 . |
| 17 | In later years , he concentrated on freelance boxing reporting . |
| 18 | This occurred on Monday night at a dinner at the Imperial Hotel . |
| 19 | One of many arrests that occurred on Labour Day when police dispersed a peaceful rally in Istanbul , May 1988 . |
| 20 | I tried on buttersoft leather jackets and tried out ‘ designer ’ bags . |
| 21 | And the New Year 's greeting which McLaren had sent , scrawled on Glitterbest notepaper , saying ‘ Happy New Year , Richard , next year will be worse … ’ was hardly reassuring . |
| 22 | The Constellation crashed on Auchinweet Farm , on the eastern edge of Tarbolton parish , about 5 miles east of the airport . |
| 23 | Their Pakistan International Airlines jet crashed on Monday killing all 167 on board . |
| 24 | By the way I just wanted to say I went out and got totally plastered on Saturday night , came home and watched those goals from Match Of The Day about six times . |
| 25 | Police Court trials usually included a miscellaneous collection of well-known ne'er-do-wells picked up over the weekend and arraigned on Monday morning to face drunk and disorderly charges . |
| 26 | Louise Allen and Sara Green advised on TV production and TV journalism respectively , the sharp edge of our media and fascinating subjects . |
| 27 | The animal was one of two injured on Newcastle Town Moor . |
| 28 | They woke on Sunday morning and people wre going to church … they dare n't be seen in their working clothes . |
| 29 | When Sophie woke on Tuesday morning she remembered with something of a shock that she had promised to go out to dinner with Giles . |
| 30 | After a poor night 's sleep , punctured by weird dreams from which she emerged coughing and aching in every joint , Julia woke on Monday morning to a suspicion that she might be really ill . |