Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , his right hand , rising to undo the buttons of her high-collared black dress , his other arm unconsciously straining her to him , closer and closer so that she could feel his arousal brought on a memory so dreadful to McAllister , a memory which she had fought against for months — and fear suddenly won the battle . |
| 2 | At least , Denise and Jean-Louis Lavergne claim they are the lovers in the world 's most romantic picture taken on a spring morning in 1950 . |
| 3 | The highlight of the week on Lough Owel was the magnificent wild trout of 9lb 9ozs taken on a Mepps near Srudarra Island by Richard Malone , Portarlington . |
| 4 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 5 | Most of us who 've been on this council some years will have seen the stress that the labour party brought on a number of senior officers who felt obliged to leave in what I would call distressing circumstances . |
| 6 | Independent test laboratory LANQuest has found that support for a new protocol can be added to a 100-node Boundary Router network in under 10% the time taken on a network routed by standard means , says 3Com . |