Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subtle lamps gleamed on pink-clothed tables , each with its own vase of flowers . |
| 2 | A study published last year by the Rand Corporation , a think-tank in California , found that 88% of the money spent by insurers went on legal fees and other paperwork costs . |
| 3 | I think this play upon words fell on deaf ears . |
| 4 | Those words fell on deaf ears . |
| 5 | But his words fell on unresponsive ears . |
| 6 | The trumpets blew on both sides . |
| 7 | When tax inspectors sat on high stools and wrote with quills , the sober ranges of Somerset House were an apt location for them . |
| 8 | And a syllabus which defines its content in functional terms is supposed to account for communicative competence in a way which syllabuses designed on other principles can not . |
| 9 | Black-headed gulls with red legs and red bills loafed on small islands . |
| 10 | At the far end of the room , spotlights shone on white tables , upon which cosmetics , in various stages of testing , were spread . |
| 11 | Adidas insisted on 500 pairs going to the ‘ flagship store ’ in Oxford Circus . |
| 12 | Short stories , pamphlets , and articles appeared on both sides of the Atlantic and her novel , The Magnetic North ( 1904 ) , was a best seller , and was compared to the work of Daniel Defoe [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | Cries rose on all sides of her as she filled the dishes , but she worked on steadily oblivious , like some eccentric female St Francis , brooding a little about the image seen in the vicarage garden , which , although it had turned out to be only an old cloth flung over a tree stump , was an indication of the way things might go . |
| 14 | During the third century BC Roman attacks began on Illyrian tribes settled in the Neretva valley , followed by raids on the Greek cities on the Albanian coast . |
| 15 | A last-minute plea to the Scottish Office by the North Tayside MP , Bill Walker , for a few more days ' grace to allow the Diplexcito family to ‘ depart with dignity ’ from their home of 17 years fell on deaf ears . |
| 16 | These disconcerting robots slid on magnetized feet along the corridor , carrying their prisoners suspended weightlessly . |
| 17 | In 1820 Sir Frederick Adam published his Survey of the State of the Poor , in which he showed that throughout the shires rates of pay for labourers of all types were low , and that many families lived on small quantities of wheaten or barley bread , skimmed milk , cheese , potatoes and legumes , meat hardly ever figuring in their diet . |
| 18 | In North Yorkshire many barrows were built on a fertile rich brown-earth soil , which only later developed into the poor heathland podsol soil which covers the moors today , and similar changes occurred on other uplands . |
| 19 | By the time of Jesus , the Pharisees fasted on two days of the week , Monday and Thursday . |
| 20 | The sleek half-fish-half-insect-looking machine with its low snout , long canopy , slim double-tapered fuselage , squat trailing-link undercarriage and 110-degree V-tail immediately recalled memories of the shiny blue mounts of la Patrouille — though the ends of its tanks remain un-dented by the games of ‘ tap-the-tip-tank ’ which those characters played on boring transits . |
| 21 | Arguments started on some fisheries when match organisers and pleasure anglers tried to fish venues usually left for freelance angling . |
| 22 | SYMMETRY in border ornament and surface decoration is ancient history for artists , but it was not until the crystallographers started on three-dimensional lattices in the 19th century that the mathematics was fully analysed . |
| 23 | Her vituperative comments fell on deaf ears . |
| 24 | Passengers sat on two rows of benches facing one another . |
| 25 | feel our bodies teased on high places |
| 26 | A score of Brother witnesses sat on elevated thrones quaffing from other such steins , brought by Servitors . |
| 27 | Members of political groups went on brief raids into its ranks , and returned with little except contempt for its prospects . |
| 28 | Most of the monsters walked on four legs . |
| 29 | At this point the two villages started on different paths . |
| 30 | Though he did not know it , and never would , he was looking at the blazing jet-pipe of Colonel Bowers ' F-15 Eagle as both men raced on different missions towards the British capital , neither man knowing what it was he carried . |