Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er we , we did n't do an awful lot on commercial later on , we gave up that er thing we , we mostly concentrated on the private cars . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Gedge boy , who apparently spied on the entire population of Dynmouth , had no doubt seen him . |
| 4 | But the thought of returning to publishing had not seriously entered his head until the spring of 1981 , when his attention suddenly focused on an industrial dispute afflicting Time Out magazine and its proprietor Tony Elliott . |
| 5 | But if you only went on the square foot it do n't matter how big it was well that 's like , surely that 'd be fairer ? |
| 6 | [ 'Kinship defenders ' ] also feel that insufficient work is carried out by social workers on the rehabilitation of separated families , while at least some of the ‘ society-as-parent ’ school seem more aware of situations where rehabilitation is attempted inappropriately , and perhaps foisted on an unwilling parent , and feel that social workers should be discouraged from holding out unrealistic hopes of restoring the child . |
| 7 | Further anecdotes on the fame of Champagne wines in the fourteenth century are told by Max Sutaine in his Essai sur l'histoire des vins de la Champagne ( 1845 ) ; in particular he relates how , when the German king Wenceslas arrived in Reims in 1397 to discuss with Charles VI the division within the church over the popes of Avignon ( a subject Henry Vizetelly describes in A History of Champagne ( 1882 ) as ‘ very fit for a drunkard and a madman to put their heads together about ’ ) he became so intoxicated on the local wines that he signed all the documents before him , departing without knowing what he had signed . |
| 8 | He merely sat on the only chair in my room , shook his head and told me to sleep , and that it would be best if we shared the same chamber that night . |
| 9 | He fumbled for and finally pounced on the right word , ‘ Of torihada in my legs . ’ |
| 10 | Nonetheless , Niki soon built on an overwhelming lead in the championship , though a first crisis came at Long Beach when Audetto suggested that Clay Regazzoni ought to have his day in the sun . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Its garden front just manages to survive , intact on its eastern bays , sensitively refaced on the western , beneath the mound of Italianate jumble that Alfred Waterhouse piled on top of it in the 19th century . |
| 13 | Algeria and Tunisia attracted immigrants from France and Italy so that a fringe of European society already existed on the southern shore of the Mediterranean . |
| 14 | And the Gospels , not the great illuminated book , but a smaller and stouter one , calculated to resist too crafty fingers by its less use and lighter pages , already lay on the silver-chased reliquary , centrally placed with accurate and reverent precision . |
| 15 | Now , if she were seated in her old place , wedged between the window and Penini , with his mother opposite encircled in her husband 's arms , or , if the men rode alongside or travelled on the outside of the carriage , sitting with her mistress while Pen and Flush lay on the other seat — now she would feel stifled , trapped , longing to get out . |
| 16 | A component with a small value for D remains largely adsorbed on the stationary phase . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One of Ibrahim 's former Jewish tenants still lived on the second floor . |
| 19 | He usually arrived on a powerful motor bicycle a B.M.W. , I am told . |
| 20 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Hearing the sound of his footsteps at the bottom of the stairs , she quickly pulled on the first things that came to hand — a pair of well-worn jeans that clung lovingly to her like a second skin , and a sweatshirt . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | Whatever he knew , he always looked on the black side , judged her and found her wanting . |
| 25 | Sunday was the first and chief day of the week , and saints ' days always fell on the same date , as did some of the major festivals such as Christmas , which was celebrated on VIII Kal Jan ( 25 December ) . |
| 26 | He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water . |
| 27 | Men like that always insisted on the last word . |
| 28 | She always insisted on the active and determining role of the child , rejecting absolutely any analogy between the growth of a child and the growth of plants because of the power of the gardener to prune a plant . |
| 29 | Labour yesterday put on the biggest gathering of the glitterati in the election campaign so far to underline its claim to be the party most famous people will vote for . |
| 30 | 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 . |