Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon , and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony . |
| 2 | Patrick Lundy stood on the street for a few moments , staring unseeing into the windows , and then he turned away and headed back up to Mayfair . |
| 3 | Herr Nordern heaved on the steering-wheel and swung the Lada into the relative safety of a narrow street shadowed by the bulk of a church where he pulled up , although wisely keeping the engine running . |
| 4 | In 1979 the Australian clearinghouse USER appeared on the scene , and its philosophy is on lines similar to that of the USA and UK clearinghouses . |
| 5 | An articulated lorry and a Ford Sierra car collided on the A thirty-four near Enstone at about nine o'clock this morning . |
| 6 | ‘ All the same , ’ he said , when the spring buds burst on the seven trees that grew in Mafeking Street , along which Wendy had once half-run , half-walked , on her way to give birth to Apricot , ‘ it would be nice to be somewhere different , just for a time , just for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 7 | If we bring the argument back to consent to non-fatal physical harm , we may recall that the Lord Chief Justice relied on the phrase ‘ not in the public interest ’ to justify the restrictions . |
| 8 | Environmental health officer Richard Hallows called on the public to report any rat sightings to the Pest Control Unit on . |
| 9 | D. F. Sherry and B. G. Galef experimented on the black-backed chickadees ( Parus atricapillus ) of Canada ( these are close relatives of the British tits in which the spread of the habit was recorded ) . |
| 10 | Henceforward Ste Barbe depended on the sometimes exigent tolerance of the Scots , who still dominated the area politically . |
| 11 | However , from the mid-1980s onwards , a series of research projects emerged on the consequences of the programme , particularly within the Partnerships . |
| 12 | Quadraphony had arrived , and Edward Greenfield reported on the first issues . |
| 13 | Miss Vinall wrote on the back of an old envelope . |
| 14 | The silver case lay on the arm of the chair . |
| 15 | A pair of pied wag tails alighted on the path . |
| 16 | Men from the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders berthed on the ship and on one occasion she had war scars inflicted on her when a bomb fell on Portland Place and debris rained down on the top deck gouging pieces out of the timbers . |
| 17 | Despite his claims to originality in his foreign policy , in practice Ceauşescu built on the foundations laid by his predecessor . |
| 18 | IN WCM July 1991 , Steven Lynch commented on the BBC 's maddening policy of interrupting live cricket with hourly visits not only to the national newsroom but also to the weatherman and the local newsdesk . |
| 19 | Tragedy strikes FOOTBALL : Romanian first division players Gabriel Nastase and Bogdan Banuta died when their Inter Sibiu club coach crashed on the way to a league game at Gloria Bistrita yesterday . |
| 20 | ‘ A Bishop 's favourite ’ were the words Wheeler wrote on the Crockford list , ’ Theodora pointed out . |
| 21 | Ivan Cooper called on the people of Derry to fight for their rights , ‘ as the Blacks in America were fighting ’ . |
| 22 | A 53-YEAR-OLD aircraft engineer rode on the tail of a light plane out to sea off New Zealand and back yesterday after it took off without the pilot knowing he was there . |
| 23 | Stock boats came on the first day , they start coming away in May . |
| 24 | Her golden wedding band gleamed on the shelf . |
| 25 | The fifty nine year-old host of The Price Is Right , was critically injured when his Rolls Royce crashed on the M-Five , at Cheltenham , in Gloucestershire , nine weeks ago . |
| 26 | In 1873 , Edward Dannreuther talked on the music of the future ( meaning Wagner 's ) and Sidney Colvin on taste and artistic judgement ; and in succeeding years there were always some Discourses essentially on the arts-a word which by this time had come to mean literature , music , painting and sculpture rather than crafts and techniques . |
| 27 | The gulf between High Ashdonian and English became obvious when Sue Lawley commented on the Liberals ' election campaign . |
| 28 | Several farmers and horse breeders appeared on the TV programme . |
| 29 | Richard Langton stood on the path outside the netting that surrounded the tennis court . |
| 30 | He managed lan Dury before Dury was famous , and City Lights provided the suit that David Bowie wore on the cover of ‘ Pin Ups ’ and which people were forever coming into Let It Rock trying to get copied , much to Malcolm 's chagrin . |