Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand that other roads built up on one side only have been granted 30 mph speed limits . |
| 2 | Occasional mute mind-wiped drones trudged by on some robotic task , perhaps simply ordered to exercise their zombie limbs prior to cleaning out a toxic sump ; and cyborged Servitors trundled here and there . |
| 3 | Straggling columns of federal infantrymen and their local militia allies advanced unopposed on the suburbs of Visegrad as shells rained down on Muslim positions . |
| 4 | The campus buildings are based around five squares raised up on concrete stilts which were officially known as podia . |
| 5 | It has sixteen acres of pasture and an acre of most attractive and interesting gardens laid out on three levels — the top layer has very fine views across a valley over miles of rolling farmland , and amongst its beautiful trees it boasts a ‘ Parrotia Persica Pendula ’ , twenty feet high and ninety feet round . |
| 6 | Gardens laid out on different levels with herbaceous borders , lakes , water gardens , old hedges and lawns . |
| 7 | And their concerns rubbed off on some of the elderly residents who spent an uncertain Christmas not knowing whether they would be staying or be forced to leave . |
| 8 | Most pieces picked up on British beaches have bobbed across the North Sea from the Baltic regions . |
| 9 | The more successful the shops became , the more the branch managers reported back on those lines which sold well , thereby wielding a power which Laura did not at first wish to accept . |
| 10 | Fluorescent lights shone down on dull red rubbery floors , making a pinkish reflection on the walls , and at intervals the passages were interrupted by semitransparent plastic flapping doors , like valves in a vein . |
| 11 | While transit passengers went off on local tours , Ellerman & Bucknall were busy co-ordinating the delivery of 80 tons of supplies and 2,500 tons of fuel to be taken on board . |
| 12 | Fulmars planed by on rigid wings . |
| 13 | Unlike most of those reading for the Bar or enrolled in university he felt a responsibility for less privileged Africans washed up on British shores , mainly seamen , who had no recognised place in Britain . |
| 14 | ‘ Appalling delays ’ had been experienced by disability benefits claimants and nearly 2.5 million households missed out on means-tested benefits to which they were entitled , leaving £1.5 billion unclaimed every year in the government 's coffers . |
| 15 | Bombs went off on six beaches at once . |
| 16 | The attack began when incendiary bombs went off on two floors of a museum in Shrewsbury Castle , Shropshire — causing £250,000 damage and destroying many irreplaceable relics of three famous regiments . |
| 17 | Meanwhile the boys stood on the pavements with their bicycles nearby , admiring the girls and commenting on their looks ; greetings to friends rang out on all sides . |
| 18 | Villages floated up on either bank , with trees crowding round the low jumble of houses . |
| 19 | Modelling of the deep magnetic boundaries has provided good correlations with reflectivity boundaries picked up on deep seismic surveys , and images of the data and their derivatives have suggested the presence of major structural boundaries , both parallel and oblique to what is conventionally taken to be the Iapetus suture , which may be the margins of terrains assembled as part of a broader zone . |
| 20 | As the advancing British , Soviet and Yugoslav forces closed in on southern Austria , this left enormous numbers of fugitives being squeezed into an ever smaller area . |
| 21 | More than 80 children came along on some days , and many people said they hoped it would become an annual event , she said . |
| 22 | In the streets , vehicles clattered along on tyreless wheels , with the day not so far of– when even at the front the airforce would be forced to encase plane wheels in wooden clogs when being wheeled from the hangar , just to save precious rubber . |
| 23 | Mr Jenks marched along the corridor , glaring wrathfully about him , and the children fell back on both sides without a murmur . |
| 24 | The corpses of 56 cetaceans washed up on Welsh beaches since 1989 were examined to determine the cause of death . |
| 25 | I might add that the TV cameras moved in on this ! |
| 26 | He is vehemently against the huge action replay screens tried out on English Test grounds this summer . |
| 27 | He was concerned that residents missed out on last year 's winter warming cash because they came under the Whitby weather station where temperatures are warmer than in Boosbeck , Lingdale , Stanghow and Moorsholm villages . |
| 28 | Hedges closed in on both sides , brushing the side mirrors and sending up a cloud of small white moths into the bracken scented air . |
| 29 | The tanks moved in on 4th November and Kádár took over . |
| 30 | Examples of marks turned down on these grounds are : HUNTSMAN — earlier mark SPORTSMAN ( both cherry brandy ) An application showing a picture of three pigs was refused because of a prior word mark THREE PIGS BRAND ( bacon ) |