Example sentences of "[vb past] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder if he 's looked in the minutes of the council er for this time twelve months ago er when we proposed a very similar amendment to the one that 's on the board there , the figures are reduced er but certainly lots of the areas are actually there and in fact if he looked back even further in the minutes he 'll see that it bears a striking resemblance to what we actually proposed on the fourteenth of February nineteen ninety one . |
| 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 | The first evidence of this surfaced on the second trip that I made to Rhodesia , in April 1971 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | the sun rose on the last of Alamein . |
| 7 | And his voice rose on the last two words . |
| 8 | The sun rose on the sixth day . |
| 9 | He 's written Clare 's room , wallpapered on the first of June , that 's a bit optimistic , by Helen and Alistair . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Contemporary writers , ’ she said , as if they bordered on the unmentionable . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | All was going well until I knelt on the front overlap . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | She knelt on the cold stone floor and carefully placed some coals on the dying embers in the grate . |
| 17 | She did n't know how long she knelt on the cold floor with her mother still and silent in her arms . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ( 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 . ) |
| 20 | I knelt on the wooden floor in the East Yorkshire winter praying , " Dear God if you exist let me be warmed . " |
| 21 | She knelt on the tufted rebellious grass and closed her eyes . |
| 22 | I knelt on the top step and poked my head through , near the bottom of the gap … |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The latter approach is the one used on the Modular Course . |
| 28 | Not the one we took off ya , the one ya used on the big guy ? ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Sanchez cocked his head — a parody of listening ; he drew on the joint and held his breath . |