Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a dramatic and impractical outfit of a kind I only expected to see on the male models who posed in the more outlandish fashion magazines that our rich clients brought aboard Wavebreaker , yet Jesse Isambard Sweetman managed to wear the elaborate style with an elegant insouciance . |
| 2 | In spite of this attitude by some of the die-hards , more and more money was being spent on new craft and equipment and our Technical Branch , which hitherto had concentrated on the maintenance on our fleet of small boarding launches , was being geared up to deal with the new cutter fleet . |
| 3 | UK deregulation meant that the smaller , traditional banks suddenly had to compete on a global scale , and very few had the financial power necessary . |
| 4 | It was as she was approaching the last crest before the house came into sight that she suddenly had to stamp on the brakes as a Land Rover came pitching round the hillside . |
| 5 | The expansion of settlement soon became based on a hollow frontier as settlement moved west leaving a trail of erosion and siltation behind until by 1939 , Charles Kellogg felt that 75 million acres ( 28 million hectares ) of this [ ( 450–500 million acres/180–200 million hectares of eroded land ) ] were too worn out to return a living wage under any system of farm practices . |
| 6 | As Norman Cohn shows in his classic Europe 's Inner Demons , infanticide — slaughter of the incontrovertibly innocent — was always crucial to the psychodrama and it soon got pinned on the Jews . |
| 7 | All three landing gear legs were torn off shortly after ground impact and the aircraft finally came to rest on the belly of the fuselage . |
| 8 | I 've actually seen them only once — Lawrence and I wandered in there one morning– the torch beam just happened to fall on a clutch of them sitting tight on the wall , right by my ear . |
| 9 | This , in effect , meant that the Sunnis were their principal antagonists and they thus proceeded to capitalise on the good will of the Christians , their oldest friends , by creating a new state which stripped Tyre , Sidon , Tripoli , the Bekaa Valley and Beirut itself district ) of Mount Lebanon , the very backbone of Maronite Christianity . |
| 10 | This meant that people were no longer willing to put up with unsatisfactory Church officials ; laymen especially were developing a personal spirituality which gave them a new confidence and commitment to their faith and which also enabled them to form an independent view of theology and Church organisation ; they no longer had to rely on the educated establishment . |
| 11 | Well this frocks never arrived and she just had to put on an ordinary er white blouse you see and a skirt and the frocks arrived the next day and she put them back . |
| 12 | for the sake of , for the sake of a few bands that we do , I mean most of the bands on the local level are used to playing in pubs so they just had to play on the floor anyway and the rest of it |
| 13 | Thoughts on women and politics generally tended to emerge on an ad hoc basis as a by-product of empirical studies into voting behaviour and political participation carried out in the 1950s and 60s . |
| 14 | ‘ I desperately wanted to go on the circuit — I still find the life terrifically exciting . |
| 15 | ‘ I desperately wanted to go on the circuit — I still find the life terrifically exciting . |
| 16 | ‘ The last time you went to Confession , ’ I stirred it , ‘ they still allowed smoking on the underground . ’ |
| 17 | Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough . |
| 18 | Although Shelley smiled only faintly , Byron roared with laughter and said , ‘ Let me tell you of an inscription I once saw scrawled on the wall of a low jakes in Chelsea . |
| 19 | The corpse still lay sheeted on the bed . |
| 20 | In all these encounters , direct or indirect , he never once hesitated to draw on the capital of his own history . |
| 21 | The House of Lords could only delay and revise legislation , and in our " disguised republic " the constitutional monarch always had to act on the advice of ministers responsible to the Commons . |
| 22 | ‘ Could be better , ’ came the reply , ‘ you know what my regular trade is like , always had to rely on the trippers out here in the sticks , and who wants to come out here during a Winter like we 've just had . ’ |
| 23 | Keith Lamb , chief executive of Middlesbrough , yesterday refused to comment on the potential loss to the club . |
| 24 | The Edinburgh-based Drambuie yesterday refused to comment on the talks . |
| 25 | Thus historical fiction , which once tended to concentrate on the grand thoughts and actions of grand people ( sorts of super-persons ) , now provides the means of closer contact between the present-day reader and the past . |
| 26 | Take in all the famous sights that you always wanted to see on a budget short trip |
| 27 | The ferry arrived on Saturday evening and we instantly agreed to stay on the boat and to go elsewhere . |
| 28 | The region of interest later became focused on the period from the top of the backswing to shortly after the impact with the ball . |
| 29 | However , beyond pointing to the dramatic increase in rape reports , we also began to speculate on the reasons for the shift by practically all the newspapers . |
| 30 | The attack came as pressure also started to mount on the chairman of the BBC governors , Marmaduke Hussey , the man who appointed Mr Birt as director general of the BBC and agreed his tax-avoiding freelance contract . |