Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) . |
| 2 | Wigeon grazed on the far shore . |
| 3 | So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon , and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony . |
| 4 | Jezrael stopped on the top step , yawning and stretching , one hand flung up to shield her face against the cold hard radiance . |
| 5 | Patrick concentrated on the foul tea . |
| 6 | Quadraphony had arrived , and Edward Greenfield reported on the first issues . |
| 7 | A hand raised in the darkened doorway of a room ; light gleamed on the smooth metal barrel of a gun . |
| 8 | The two examples that Picasso owned on the other hand could certainly be called primitive , both in conception and execution . |
| 9 | The first peacetime , and civil , air disaster in Ayrshire occurred on the 20th October , 1948 . |
| 10 | ALNWICK : Three members of the same family were badly hurt when their car crashed on the busy Peppermoor crossroads . |
| 11 | ALNWICK : Three members of the same family were badly hurt when their car crashed on the busy Peppermoor crossroads . |
| 12 | In 1986 , according to Friends of the Earth , a survey of the homes clustered on the surrounding hills found that three-quarters of 800 residents were opposed to the Rechem plant . |
| 13 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 14 | This is because when the tetrads that Michell found on the one-inch map are investigated on a 6-inch sheet , they become distressingly ‘ crooked ’ . |
| 15 | When Therese came on the entire evening lifted into top gear . |
| 16 | The allegation came on the third day of an insurance fraud trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court . |
| 17 | It is interesting to ask whether the qualities Spenser conferred on the Irish , making them the hostile outsiders who needed to be suppressed but who his texts acknowledge to be also a lurking part of the civilised English , are still part of current English imaginative experience . |
| 18 | The Bush broadside came on the last day of the Republicans ' convention in Houston , Texas . |
| 19 | For a split second he looked oddly vulnerable , but then he pushed himself up in the bed , her wary eyes lingered on the naked gold of his shoulders , and she quickly changed her mind . |
| 20 | The allegations of drug-taking sessions came on the first day of Murray 's trial before Lord Kirkwood . |
| 21 | She would walk to the kitchen ; the morning light had slid away , and the paler light shone on the old hutch , making the clean china pieces , old pitchers and cups , charming unmatched plates standing on end on the shelves , gleam and reflect . |
| 22 | The floodlights shone on the blotchy brown walls of the hangar , the filthy floor , the roof . |
| 23 | Moving with them to north Africa , he was initially held in enforced inactivity behind the lines , a problem which he solved in characteristic style : ‘ The Battle of Alamein began on the 23rd of October , 1942 . |
| 24 | Back in London in 1943 , Dorothea Ramsey served on the Advisory Case Sub-Committee of the National Council of Social Service . |
| 25 | There was nothing to support it , no face at a window , no movement of a curtain , but when Mr Hollins knocked on the front door it opened immediately . |
| 26 | The Medau 1955 tour included a display in Glasgow and Molly taught on the Scottish CPR Medau/Keep Fit/Dance Summer Course a year later . |
| 27 | Karita Mattila started on the flat side , but eventually developed the right glow and intensity . |
| 28 | Hoskyns called on the great man in his chairman 's office at Tube Investments . |
| 29 | When something in that costly box of tricks above the pool side malfunctioned on the first night at the Grove , they had no option but to call on a back-up team of stopwatch timekeepers . |
| 30 | Speaking on Sept. 24 , Chuan called on the Thai people to " join hands to help perfect " the democratic system . |