Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used to treat our coral cuts with iodine , unaware that the coral polyps which had entered the wounds normally thrived on iodine which they extracted from seawater — and were now extracting from our blood . |
| 2 | On March 6 , 8,500 maintenance workers also went on strike , supported by the pilots . |
| 3 | Five of his associates also went on trial . |
| 4 | The fulling mills still survived on site , although Stratford Mill 's involvement in the cloth trade drew to a close around 1738 , the first on the Painswick Stream to do so . |
| 5 | The ground has only one entrance , so long queues developed , and although the players all arrived on time , one of the staff was stranded at the back of the queue . |
| 6 | Many great players never smiled on court but were great people off the court — as Steffi is . |
| 7 | When the Surrey militia descended on Rye and Winchelsea in 1793 , the local publicans promptly went on strike and the only answer was the construction of special barracks . |
| 8 | The police always looked on top in an eventful first half and translated their superiority into goals just before half-time . |
| 9 | Admiral Habib Olahi and some others finally escaped on foot across the mountains into Turkey . |
| 10 | Rots also increased on recipient tubers when the donors were heavily infected but were free of gangrene lesions . |
| 11 | The women also called on church leaders to stand by the tenets of truth and justice , and be willing to accept criticism of their own policies . |
| 12 | Women also sat on school boards ( which were responsible for state elementary schools prior to 1902 ) , and the first generation of such women — elected during the 1870s — was particularly active . |
| 13 | Pilgrims then came on foot and horseback for hundreds of miles across many countries to pay homage to these relics and churches were erected along the routes to such pilgrimage centres . |
| 14 | Forecasts for sales and overheads previously ran on Lotus 1-2-3 , explains general accounting manager Andy Round . |