Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] on the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This happened on the Sunday in question , and as I watched him climb the stairs , dragging himself up by the banister , I saw that he was sweating heavily . |
| 2 | A crowd of about 2,000 gathered on the Mapplewell Junior and Infant School playing fields to sing hymns , and , of course , Handel 's ‘ Hallelujah ’ chorus — a programme that again differed little from their original one , or that of Holmfirth . |
| 3 | These arrived on the MRT narrow gauge trackwork on Wednesday , June 10 . |
| 4 | Symphony Release 2.2 relied on the Allways add-in for its spreadsheet publishing capability but transition from one to the other has been made as smooth as possible . |
| 5 | Attention in the later 1970s centred on the Paris summit 's decision to hold direct elections to the European Parliament . |
| 6 | We hear that there are 10,000 massed on the Mozambique border ‘ itching to go ’ . |
| 7 | How the Manx cat first arrived on the Isle of Man is hotly debated . |
| 8 | While everyone puzzles over how these animals first arrived on the Isle of Man , stories of tailless cats being found in such faraway places as Russia , Malaysia , and China all leading to new theories , nobody seems to have considered that the tailless gene might first have occurred on the Isle of Man itself . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh no , I 've known Paul since 1984 when he first appeared on the LA scene in an excellent band called Black Sheep . |
| 10 | Dec. 29 Four Palestinians are killed and 150 injured on the Gaza Strip during clashes with the Israeli security forces [ ibid . ] . |
| 11 | In May 200 struck on the Orlov-Vitebsk line on this account , declaring that instead of devoting its energy to extracting gold from the churches , the government should find ways of paying them better . |
| 12 | We last met on the Sunday before his death . |