Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb past] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seconds later sunlight flashed on metal and the aircraft appeared in the skies above them . |
| 2 | By getting to grips with such details as whether tradesmen negotiated with the servants at the front door or down the area steps , how the speculative system which produced most of London 's houses between 1700 and 1830 worked between landlord , builder and tenant , how builders skimped on brickwork and laced their masonry with pieces of wood , how the proportioning of windows in façades and interior details were worked out , and how water supplies entered houses and were stored ( in decorative lead cisterns usually prominent in the basement kitchen ) , it gives an extraordinarily vivid sense of contact with the life that created London 's Georgian world of squares and terraces , all of which is heightened by effective quotations form the impressions of foreign visitors . |
| 3 | There could hardly be more fundamental mysteries than the reasons why the Universe came into existence , how life began on planet Earth , and so on . |
| 4 | There were several reasons why disputes happened on Fazisi that were not shared with other yachts in the fleet . |
| 5 | James mentioned that he had never understood why people went on strike until he became a wage-earner . |
| 6 | I needed no second bidding and , in the last two weeks of Lent , when Benjamin fasted on water and salted fish and abstained from wine ( I did the same during the day but , at night , I always crept out to one of the nearby taverns ; I have great difficulty fasting for I get this terrible thirst ! ) , |
| 7 | Chapman 's search for the right man ended in 1929 when Preston put on transfer at £9,000 their ‘ Wembley Wizard ’ Alex James , the Scottish international who had been the bane of England at Wembley the year before , when Scotland won 5–1 . |
| 8 | I used wheels where Orwell went on foot . |