Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She received the watch and chain from the pawnbroker 's daughter , together with the new pawn ticket and fivepence , and went off in a pleasured state over the transaction , although a little worried that Queen Mary might find out that her naughty niece wanted to show her legs riding bareback on a circus horse . |
| 2 | Two sandpipers landed lightly on a boulder and raised their wings high in a courtship gesture . |
| 3 | In the Kenyan savannahs where chimpanzees were first studied intensively in the wild , the animals live primarily on a vegetarian diet of fruit and leaves , together with insects such as termites . |
| 4 | The taut legs standing out from the body at all angles , some hideously broken like twigs thrown carelessly on a bonfire , others still moving feebly . |
| 5 | The almost blue water tumbled over myriad falls and drops like pearls strung together on a necklace , each one challenging but nowhere desperate . |
| 6 | By the time we have adequate records , the craft guild can be seen emerging from the lodge of craftsmen working together on a project . |
| 7 | Well , Kenny 's Rovers stand today on a level footing with Brian 's Forest exactly 15 years ago this holiday week-end . |
| 8 | Burial in a churchyard was becoming a thing of the past in central London from the 1840s onwards ; space was too precious , and the task of burying the dead was taken over by non-denominational cemeteries run largely on a commercial basis . |
| 9 | Companies do so on a voluntary basis . |
| 10 | Leapor recognizes the skill , but these lines follow hard on a suggestion that Sophronia is pretentious despite being one of the ‘ menial Train' . |
| 11 | Most of the new low-end packages run happily on a 386 with 2Mb of RAM . |
| 12 | Many of them had spent weeks getting there on a dangerous journey from their homes in Sarajevo . |
| 13 | While Ipswich are one game away from the National League title , Chelmsford are one place away from relegation to the Second Division but when it comes to March 28 the league will seem a million miles away and both sides will have their sights set firmly on a semi-final place . |
| 14 | R r right around the country in all sorts of different locations , we 'd seen applications coming forward on a speculative basis . |
| 15 | But the defendants claimed they were just using the boards to shelter behind on a windy day , while they had a cup of tea . |
| 16 | What imagination anywhere could not respond to the image of strangers galloping hard on a moonswept night towards such high turrets ? |
| 17 | Although they were gruesome , the markets virtually ignored these widely expected figures to concentrate instead on a few signs of impending economic recovery , such as improved unemployment figures . |
| 18 | The epidemiology of T. cati depends largely on a reservoir of larvae in the tissues of the dam which are mobilised late in pregnancy and excreted in the milk throughout lactation . |
| 19 | The medium-rise deck access maisonettes and flats built here on a slum clearance site in the 1960s were very unpopular and by the late 1970s had become difficult to let . |
| 20 | However , during the breeding season , males gather together on a display ground known as a lek . |
| 21 | I shifted into second , and the Discovery stormed up the slope with a roar of V8 power , only to slither to a halt halfway up , its front wheels sliding sideways on a sheet of ice and threatening the worst off-road fate of all — to be stuck across a slope . |
| 22 | Oddments blacken strangely on a nearby fence : |
| 23 | The biggest gap in the UK preservation scene is a proper representation of the broad gauge , with trains operating regularly on a line of reasonable length . |
| 24 | It is essential that presidents meet together on a regular basis and the dinner circuit provides the ideal forum for this . |
| 25 | What would have happened if penicillin had not been discovered , or if years of patient research had failed to explain why sulphonamides acted only on a limited selection of microbes ? |
| 26 | Each china object was ribboned like the jug and basin , in appropriately lesser proportions Towels hung neatly on a mahogany towel-rail , hinged in two parts like a screen , behind which stood a slop-pail and a deep foot bath . |
| 27 | The country 's worst rail accident since 1963 occurred in Shiga prefecture , near Kyoto , on May 14 , when two passenger trains collided head-on on a single track , killing 42 people and injuring more than 400 . |
| 28 | From an early stage regular homework is given and channels of communication are established through the child 's daily use of a homework diary , enabling parents and teachers to communicate informally on a daily basis . |
| 29 | Two departments rely mainly on a single source for their forecasts with perhaps slight alterations to incorporate their own views . |
| 30 | Getting Microsoft Windows to run remotely on a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation was seen as the last step in the development effort . |