Example sentences of "[vb past] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lie had a pronounced effect upon Lettice who immediately ventured on a small excursion into terror . |
| 2 | The ball shot forth , bounced on the frosty road and rolled sadly on to the grass verge . |
| 3 | Rain and hail bounced on the tiled roof with such venom that Tom and Willie were quite deafened . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Princess Margaret Rose on a rare working day at the Rutland Railway Centre . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Contemporary writers , ’ she said , as if they bordered on the unmentionable . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All was going well until I knelt on the front overlap . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | She knelt on the cold stone floor and carefully placed some coals on the dying embers in the grate . |
| 13 | She did n't know how long she knelt on the cold floor with her mother still and silent in her arms . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( 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 . ) |
| 16 | I knelt on the wooden floor in the East Yorkshire winter praying , " Dear God if you exist let me be warmed . " |
| 17 | She knelt on the tufted rebellious grass and closed her eyes . |
| 18 | I knelt on the top step and poked my head through , near the bottom of the gap … |
| 19 | These are ancient divisions of the territory , recognized for centuries past as distinct pays , but you are unlikely to find them entered on a modern map , so I should apologize for introducing what will seem like obsolete names . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The latter approach is the one used on the Modular Course . |
| 26 | Not the one we took off ya , the one ya used on the big guy ? ’ |
| 27 | From the mid-1970s ( the punk moment ) to 1984 the dominant sensibility was a pop sensibility which had , at its cutting edge , an account of itself which drew on an avant-garde critique of mass culture ; this was the account developed by Paul Morley and the other theorists of the ‘ new pop ’ . |
| 28 | The neo-Romantic poet and painter David Jones drew on an eclectic range of writing styles to create a whole series of semi-private painted inscriptions . |
| 29 | But I do know that England drew on an enormous well of self-belief . |
| 30 | 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 . |