Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) reported at the end of September 1989 that seasonal ozone depletion over Antarctica ( believed to be caused primarily by chlorofluorocarbons — CFCs — see p. 36785 ) was increasing at the rate of 1.5 per cent a day ; the depletion largely occurred on a seasonal basis , with the ozone being replenished during summer months . |
| 3 | His choice had more than its share of steps and when he eventually arrived on a pleasant terrace overlooking the harbour , a pounding in his chest reminded him once more that he was middle-aged . |
| 4 | He usually arrived on a powerful motor bicycle a B.M.W. , I am told . |
| 5 | The Sex Pistols ( who once touched on a similar subject ) also made sense , once , but although Johnny Rotten was a wry and clever ambassador for the feeling of the youth , he equally made it perfectly easy for the tabloids to pin him with yobbishness . |
| 6 | Can it be true that , 6000 miles from home , he once called on a well-known American geophysicist in the middle of the night with an urgent request to have a secretary type his latest contribution to the journals ? |
| 7 | As Serbia yesterday voted on a new president , incumbent Slobodan Milosevic , accused of war crimes by Mr Eagleburger , was neck and neck with the prime minister of what is left of Yugoslavia , Milan Panic . |
| 8 | She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt . |
| 9 | By contrast , I once stayed on a tiny Wyoming ranch where the teetotal owner dragged us out of bed at 5 a.m. for long , freezing horse rides into the Rockies . |
| 10 | He usually stood on a little platform raised high enough to enable him to see over and past the cabins when the boat was moving . |
| 11 | No king ever sat on a prouder throne than I that day . |
| 12 | I once sat on a Labour-controlled council which went out to tender and would not accept the lowest tender because it did not come from a direct labour department . |
| 13 | One and a half hours later , as he still sat on a high stool at the bar , he looked down and saw the fingers of a beautifully manicured hand against his left arm , and felt the ghost of a touch of the softest breast against his shoulder . |
| 14 | Alan Exley of Grainger Park also laid on a great display , his coolness , footwork and left jab dominating his middleweight semi-final against Sunderland 's Steve Bellfield . |
| 15 | First , a significant element of research is not only funded by the government , or quasi-governmental agencies , but also organized on a customer-contract basis . |
| 16 | She left early for her morning swim at Buckingham Palace and later went on a 35-minute errand . |
| 17 | Britain won the enclave , and , in 1860 , also acquired on a perpetual lease the Kowloon peninsula , adding in 1898 more islands and the New Territories of mainland China on a 99-year lease . |
| 18 | This year , we also insisted on a substantial strengthening of the nature of the health warnings put on packets and on any tobacco advertising . |
| 19 | The EC also insisted on a biannual monitoring of Rover 's hitherto secret five-year corporate plan , in order to confirm that the money allocated for restructuring was being spent on that . |
| 20 | The one-off posters featuring slogans that became familiar parts of the electoral joust also appeared on a single billboard in south London for photo-opportunity launches . |
| 21 | Eva did her best to " spark everybody up " and probably trod on a few more toes in the process . |
| 22 | A sort of cat and mouse game followed , especially going up the long hill , but we eventually settled on a dead heat . |
| 23 | The researchers eventually stumbled on a 1979 article in a little-known medical journal , Psychiatry Research , which described the plight and eventual suicide of a 23-year-old graduate student . |
| 24 | He now embarked on a new recording contract for Capitol , and proved wrong all the critics who 'd said he was just emulating Crosby when he developed his own new determined style which culminated in 1955 with his album Songs For Swinging Lovers , one of the first best-selling LPs . |
| 25 | Maggie now slept on a low bed draped with a Chinese spread covered in dancing dragons and spinning suns , exactly underneath the centre of these windows , and on clear nights the moon rode over her head , and the clouds , illuminated a sickly yellow by the vastness of the city , would race past . |
| 26 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 27 | Such was the organisers ' strong determination to live up to the movie image of English life , they even laid on a scatty vicar wearing a panama hat to serve tea and sandwiches at the finish . |
| 28 | The lie had a pronounced effect upon Lettice who immediately ventured on a small excursion into terror . |
| 29 | When a taxi-driver took the band to the wrong side of town earlier in the day , the Franks simply sat on a nearby wall , chilled out and waited for ‘ someone else ’ to panic and discover their whereabouts . |
| 30 | The first meeting place was above a cafe in Newgate Street in the City of London , but this did not prove satisfactory and they then met on a weekly basis at another cafe near Marble Arch . |